lightning conductor
Example Sentences
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You hear of microphones being hit by lightning; and the scaffolding around the stage is basically a lightning conductor.
From BBC ● May 22, 2018
Kennedy’s firsthand experience of visceral hunger in America ran as a lightning conductor through his run for the White House.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018
In general, Shapiro sees Shakespeare in a more benign context as a lightning conductor for American political and economic culture.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2016
Wayne Rooney will always be a lightning conductor for debate and conjecture in an England context.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2014
Trust me to have a lightning conductor fer you—with his lamps lit and burning.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball
