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Lightning in sentence

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So, too, does the verse of Louis Aragon:“Nothing is as strong, not fire, not lightning,As my Paris defying dangerNothing is as beautiful as this Paris of mine.”
There is far less uncertainty among Republicans: barring a lightning strike, Trump will easily be renominated.
Its new president, a former army captain who wants to arm the citizenry and raze large swaths of the Amazon (which would significantly accelerate global warming), has become a lightning rod for student protests, environmentalists, and gay-rights activists.
If he has concluded that Trump’s “America First” administration would do nothing to protect Taiwan, he could be considering a lightning military strike on the island to bring it back under the mainland’s control.
The Great Statue Reckoning has served as a lightning rod for wider societal frustrations.
The flash of lightning, the sound of thunder, and the sudden cold sensation of his body that was being drenched, merged for Levin into one feeling of horror.
There lightning flashed and distant thunder rolled.
At every flash of lightning not only the Milky Way but even the bright stars vanished; but immediately afterwards they reappeared in the same places, as if thrown there by some unerring hand.
But she would not have been able to discern its expression had not a flash of lightning that effaced the stars lit it up.
It was thought that it would be crushed to fragments and fly to powder, when suddenly it sank in one block, drunk down by the earth, melted like a colossal candle; and nothing was left, not even the point of the lightning conductor.
CHAPTER 8"Mobilis in Mobili"THIS BRUTALLY EXECUTED capture was carried out with lightning speed.
"But it seems to me that in this semidarkness, amid this liquid that's so dense in comparison to the atmosphere, a gunshot couldn't carry far and would prove fatal only with difficulty!""On the contrary, sir, with this rifle every shot is fatal; and as soon as the animal is hit, no matter how lightly, it falls as if struck by lightning."
A shot went off, I heard a faint hissing, and an animal dropped a few paces away, literally struck by lightning.
Without thunderclaps, lightning bolts would be much less frightening, although the danger lies in the flash, not the noise.
"I've been struck by a lightning bolt!"
Sinai on whose summit Moses met God face to face, that summit the mind's eye always pictures as wreathed in lightning.
Inside the Mediterranean, then, I could catch no more of its fast-passing scenery than a traveler might see from an express train; in other words, I could view only the distant horizons because the foregrounds flashed by like lightning.
Then, picking up a piece of chalky stone, he advanced to a black basaltic rock and scrawled this one word:ATLANTIS What lightning flashed through my mind!
Its fins set vertically, its propeller thrown in gear at the captain's signal, the Nautilus rose with lightning speed, shooting upward like an air balloon into the sky.
The air was streaked with violent flashes of lightning.
You would have thought Captain Nemo was courting a death worthy of himself, seeking to be struck by lightning.
In one hideous pitching movement, the Nautilus reared its steel spur into the air like a lightning rod, and I saw long sparks shoot down it.
Some were struck by lightning right before my eyes!
Now, as from La Huchette to Buchy there is no other way than by Yonville, he had to go through the village, and Emma had recognised him by the rays of the lanterns, which like lightning flashed through the twilight.
It was a stormy night, and they talked under an umbrella by lightning flashes.
Suddenly she struck her brow and uttered a cry; for the thought of Rodolphe, like a flash of lightning in a dark night, had passed into her soul.
This glimpse of their respective positions came to Julien like a flash of lightning; he replied, hesitatingly:'I should greatly regret leaving such attractive and _well-born_ children, but perhaps it will be inevitable.
In the midst of these alternations of love, remorse and pleasure, the days passed for them with lightning rapidity.
Suddenly a storm broke, the thunder growled, and the saintly student exclaimed, thrusting him rudely away:'Listen, each for himself in this world, I have no wish to be struck by lightning: God may blast you as an infidel, another Voltaire.'
His teeth clenched with rage and his eyes opened towards the sky furrowed by streaks of lightning: 'I should deserve to be submerged, were I to let myself sleep during the storm!' cried Julien.
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