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

But “Slouching” was a thunderbolt, a direct hit on the counterculture.

From Los Angeles Times

However, it was not until Bernabei thunderbolt's found the net deep into stoppage time that Celtic fans could breath easily.

From BBC

That “thunderbolt moment” of seeing the archive, Hagerty said, has become a central part of her current work, which is focused on the potential human rights implications of biometric and predictive technologies.

From New York Times

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

From Seattle Times