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Definitions of lightning

noun

1. the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
2. abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

Examples of lightning

1. The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
2. The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly.
3. But the demands of success hit them like a bolt of lightning.

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