thunderbolt
Example Sentences
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The attack fell like a thunderbolt on the country’s tightly knit Jewish community.
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
True to his word, he was best when fresh, slipping straight back into bowling thunderbolts.
From BBC
Once more Penelope dropped her books, for the solution had just hit her like a thunderbolt.
From Literature
While sticking Cillo into a varsity game would attract a thunderbolt of attention, Clark has been waiting for an appropriate moment.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
