lightning bolt
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“We’d have these jackets with a big Chargers lightning bolt, the dark-blue stuff before the baby-blue stuff was en vogue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
That “better” isn’t a lightning bolt so much as a slow accumulation — small, incremental shifts that bring something closer, then closer still.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026
One of the most famous is Pikachu - a mouse-like species with a tail shaped like a lightning bolt that can blast powerful electric charges.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
One idea is that the earliest spark of a lightning bolt could arise directly from charged ice crystals.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 2025
Some carried the tattered lightning bolt banners of the Twelfth Legion, Fifth Cohort—Michael Varus’s doomed expedition from the 1980s.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word