dark lightning
Example Sentences
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After dark, lightning flashed, not so much from cloud to ground as within clouds, illuminating their inner shape and structure.
From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021
These bursts produce very little visible light, inspiring Joseph Dwyer to dub them "dark lightning".
From The Guardian • May 25, 2013
To learn what might trigger the transformation, they began measuring radiation of the lightning that thunderstorms routinely emit and discovered something unexpected: the gamma rays and X-rays of dark lightning.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2013
It was a terrifying shadow, with steps like dark lightning, enough to frighten any opponent.
From Time Magazine Archive
They’d found the source of the dark lightning.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
