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
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
“I feel like lightning did strike twice — and then some.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
In a sense, the whole story of “Waitress” feels like lightning in a bottle.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023
“Now I’m not saying that the Chandrian are out there, striking like lightning from the clear blue sky. But folk everywhere are afraid of them. There’s usually a reason for that.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
