Word Finder - lightning

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A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.

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Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.

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A discharge of this kind.

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That tree was hit by lightning.

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Anything that moves very fast.

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The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.

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To produce lightning.

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Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.

Lightning flashed around them and thunder rumbled.

White lightning snaked through the air.

Lightning exploded in the sky.

Raindrops fell as if in slow motion, and lightning stayed, brighter than the midday sun.

She saw lightning forming in his hand.

In another flash of lightning, she saw a form dart from the hallway, around the stunned crowd, towards her.

A stream of rain was splattering on the patio and then a bolt of lightning lit up the bedroom.

Grabbing a camera, he hopped out into the fury of the storm, "for a few quick lightning shots."

He staggered away from the monument and lightning connecting the woman with the clouds and dropped to his knees on the other side of the hill.

Lightning flashed brilliantly and a clap of thunder followed.

Lightning revealed Jonny's face.

The lightning was flickering incessantly, but she heard no thunder.

Lightning flashed and Ed's head came up, his eyes showing white.

In one heavy thunder-shower the lightning struck a large pitch pine across the pond, making a very conspicuous and perfectly regular spiral groove from top to bottom, an inch or more deep, and four or five inches wide, as you would groove a walking-stick.

One was the fact that Ed had never been afraid of lightning before.

There was thunder and lightning; the wind blew hard; the rain poured.

As I have said before, she is wonderfully bright and active and as quick as lightning in her movements.

With lightning speed, he caught the end of the whip in his hand and jerked violently, catching her off balance and pulling her off her feet.

Jenn looked from the next guardsman to the Other whose lightning lit up its hands.

He paused, bristling with lightning and rage at the thought of Darian betraying their family.

Lightning no longer left her for the clouds.

With lightning speed, Alex moved in close, jerking one of Josh's legs out from under him.

An arc of lightning left her father's hand and slammed the stranger into the wall.

Lightning flashed so bright that the room lit up, and shortly afterward it thundered so loud that the windows rattled.

Lightning flashed again, and thunder rattled the windowpanes.

The Other raised a hand, and Jenn dived to the ground as lightning ripped through the air towards her.

Jenn ducked at the sight of purple lightning, stunned when he caught it midair and flung it back towards the Other.

Table Deaths by Lightning, per annum, per million Inhabitants.

Purple lightning sizzled and a guardsman's sword arced towards her simultaneously.

Another brilliant bolt of lightning ended in a deafening clap of thunder.

Yes. It's still raining, but it isn't lightning any more.

But sometimes it was like lightning in a bottle, and magic happened.

She threw herself into the snow, watching the lightning slice the air where she'd been.

He knocked the guardsman back with a punch and deflected the Other's lightning effortlessly.

The smoke of the guns mingled with this mist, and over the whole expanse and through that mist the rays of the morning sun were reflected, flashing back like lightning from the water, from the dew, and from the bayonets of the troops crowded together by the riverbanks and in Borodino.

The robed man sent what looked like a lightning bolt down the hall.

Purple lightning lit up the space around them.

A flash of lightning jerked her attention to the clouds again.

In Los Angeles they sometimes had thunder and lightning, but not like this.

Lightning streaked from her fingertips, and she felt the magic sucked from her.

If we weren't cooked by lightning, we'd be drowned before we got down this mountain.

She raised her fist to lay a right hook to his throat, beginning to panic when the lightning arced between his hands.

Gabriel touched her forehead, and cold lightning buzzed through her, absorbing the pain.

The Other glowed purple-black in the night, and more lightning streaked towards Darian.

The moment their lips met, lightning flew through her, setting every nerve afire with awareness unlike anything she'd felt before.

It was dark, but the constant lightning flashes exposed a world of wildly waving branches.

At present, there are about one hundred new cases reported per month around the world, infecting about the same number of people as die from lightning strikes.

His hand remained, and she felt the cool lightning in her mind, ruffling through her memories.

A brilliant flash of lightning made the furniture in their bedroom stand out in relief.

Her gaze followed the lightning emanating from the second Other's body.