lightning attack

Example Sentences

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His mother wasn't on the boat and survived the lightning attack.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2023

Last August, in a lightning attack, Ojukwu's forces swept westward out of Biafra and captured Nigeria's oil-rich Midwestern state.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lightning attack humiliated and outraged Britain, which instantly broke relations with Argentina.

From Time Magazine Archive

Executing a lightning attack so stealthy we didn’t even need the cover of night.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

But he made no answer, though his eyes flashed evilly as he came on again with a swift, lightning attack that chance alone enabled me to avoid.

From Orrain A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S.