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
The whole morning news team experience in those early years was like lightning in a bottle.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2024
As Pipkin reached the path a great, shimmering dragonfly, four inches long, all emerald and sable, appeared at his shoulder, hovered, droning and motionless, and was gone like lightning into the sedge.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
