thunderbolt

Once more Penelope dropped her books, for the solution had just hit her like a thunderbolt.

While sticking Cillo into a varsity game would attract a thunderbolt of attention, Clark has been waiting for an appropriate moment.

Across the floor and walls sprawl grand mosaics and sculptures depicting lions, piles of gold, thunderbolts and ancient Roman gods.

The same familiar blue and gold thunderbolt greeted Mike Williams as he drove through the welcoming Southern California streets.

The reaction resembles the thunderbolt that struck the U.S. aerospace community — and the government — in 1957, when the Soviet Union placed Sputnik in orbit while American rockets were still blowing up on their launchpads.