thunderbolt

Example Sentences

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That’s why the revision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its advisory on vaccines and autism struck like a thunderbolt, and not in a good way.

From Los Angeles Times

“The storm built up, and built up and built up. The American Indian Movement was simply the thunderbolt.”

From Seattle Times

Reporters are increasingly urged to be definitive, to call out “liars” and defend “science” and hurl all sorts of Zeus-like thunderbolts adjudicating the Truth.

From Washington Post

The call from his secretary was a thunderbolt: Colin was the national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan.

From Washington Post

The first FRBs struck astrophysicists like thunderbolts out of a clear blue sky; no theory had predicted their existence.

From Scientific American