like lightning
Example Sentences
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Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
"I was having severe facial pain. It felt like lightning going through my face," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Musk pushed back, saying on X that “SpaceX is moving like lightning compared to the rest of the space industry.”
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
“It was like lightning struck me,” says Messina, who also became fascinated with James Dean.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023
The evil inside of me woke and crackled like lightning.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
