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lightning English
Meaning lightning meaning
What does lightning mean?
Definitions in simple English
lightning
lightning
Synonyms lightning synonyms
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Topics lightning topics
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What words refer to moving quickly?move quickly hurry haste hasten rush forge ahead charge barrel along move like a bat out of hell make a beeline for boil bolt bustle move along at a good clip dart double-time fast fire flash flat-out fling flit fly gallop move like greased lightning be really hopping kick lickety-split plunge in quick race rapid rapidly rapidity run rush sail scour scud shoot move like sixty skim snappily speed stampede streak sweep swift swiftly swing tear apace tilt vroom whiz wildfire zip zoom at full speed at top speed express make tracks burn up the track
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Simple sentences
The tree was struck by lightning.
There is lightning.
Don't stand under a tree in a lightning storm.
I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.
Lightning precedes thunder.
Lightning is usually followed by thunder.
Lightning can be dangerous.
Lightning is an electrical phenomenon.
The dog hid under the bed whenever lightning flashed.
After the lightning, came the thunder.
The lightning flashed.
The flash of lightning precedes the sound of thunder.
Those jets were faster than lightning.
The house was struck by lightning yesterday.
I saw the house struck by lightning.
I ran like lightning.
There was thunder and lightning last night.
The little girl managed to keep silent, having been terrified by the lightning.
I saw flashes of lightning in the distance.
Movie subtitles
Until now, you had to follow me everywhere like lightning.
Jupiter delivers the lightning on Ulysses' ship to avenge himself.
That's how the cheat imagines his gesture, faster than lightning.
I should like to think that an irate Jehovah was pointing those arrows of lightning directly at my head.
You know how lightning alarms me.
Then all we have to do is find the knoll. upon which stands a tree, half-shattered by lightning.
That's the lightning.
I am a courier, fast as lightning. silent as the night itself.
When the lightning struck.
I'll close the curtains, madam, so the lightning won't bother him.
Please don't close them, 'cause I like lightning.
What awful lightning!
My father drew that very lightning from heaven and forced it to his own will. to bring life to a being that he created with his own hands.
He was standing under tree. when lightning strike.
You can accelerate all you want, but you're not able to match the speed of lightning.
Is that your idea of lightning rods?
Such lightning strikes, such virtuosity in attack.
I might have realized, all that thunder and lightning today.
It must be the lightning.
I'm a man of lightning decisions.
Like lightning.
To the Emerald City, as fast as lightning!
It's a wonder lightning don't come down and strike you all dead.
That isn't ordinary lightning.
It's like lightning.
But then, the lightning army group is very famous.
For the candles, and cocktails, and succulents and lightning bugs.
The lightning?
One flash of lightning and we're practically back in the Middle Ages.
Thunder and lightning going.
It's a wonder a bolt of lightning don't come down and strike you all dead!
Two years old he is, and full of the old Ned. Faster than lightning.
You'll see Jupiter, surrounded by its lightning bolts.
Like being struck by lightning.
Lightning, Ramona Black Flash.
News and current affairs
Now everything changed like lightning.
Instability just strikes like lightning.
NAFTA became a lightning rod for complaints about globalization, capitalism, and the decline of organized labor.
Forty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after a lightning six-day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
But this reply fails to deal with the suffering of those who drown in floods, are burned alive in forest fires caused by lightning, or die of hunger or thirst during a drought.
What historians have known for 2,000 years - and what the eighteenth century's classical economists also knew - suddenly struck the new breed of mathematical economists in the 1990's like a flash of lightning: prosperity depends on good government.
Ahn has already become a lightning rod for all of the country's anti-Park and anti-President Lee Myun-bak forces, attracting young people as well.
Certainly, few observers looking in 1978 at the smoldering embers of the Cultural Revolution, or at the seeming ruination of the post-1989 years, thought China would emerge as the lightning rod of the world's developmental hopes.