Words similar to lightning

Example sentences for: lightning

How can you use “lightning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Lightning was used to split open the mountain to bring the corn to the people.
True, there is not much subtlety in calling a gun a cannon , a ship a canoe , or an incompetent prizefighter a canvasback ; but that a canoe inspector is a gynecologist is not immediately obvious, that Cement City might be thought picturesquely oblique for a cemetery, and that chain lightning is certainly as descriptive as rotgut for cheap potent liquor cannot escape anyone's notice.
Believing that the lightning had created the spring, they named the area after the miraculous event.
He lost control, as young drivers will, and Jupiter, astride his eagle, shot him down with a lightning bolt.
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