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go like lightning
verb as in festinate
verb as in hightail
verb as in hurry
Strong matches
verb as in run
Strong matches
verb as in rush
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in scoot
verb as in skedaddle
Example Sentences
"The time seems to go like lightning—thinking" he confessed—"I seem to sweep the mornings up in a handful."
‘Four months,’ I said, ‘since you came back;’ and he looked up at Sage and said that the time seemed to go like lightning.”
It was such measures as these that made the bayonet work go like lightning, and cut down the time required at it by more than one-half.
From time to time a flash would reveal a lancer bent to his horse's neck, or a cuirassier, with his broad white back and his helmet with its floating plume, shooting off like a bullet, two or three foot soldiers running about in the midst of the fray,—all would come and go like lightning.
“Why, uncle, they seem to me to go like lightning,” cried Rodd.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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