[
UK
/lˈaɪtnɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɫaɪtnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪtnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- 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
- abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
How To Use lightning In A Sentence
- The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
- 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. The Dew of Their Youth
- But the demands of success hit them like a bolt of lightning. The Sun
- There was thunder too and lightning and in places rain. Bomber
- They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
- There was a sudden flash of lightning that gave the face blazing eyes. The Other Side of Me
- Lightning raids in class are entirely justified. The Sun
- Thus, among many of the tribes the sun is wakanda — not _the_ wakanda or _a_ wakanda, but simply wakanda; and among the same tribes the moon is wakanda, and so is thunder, lightning, the stars, the winds, the cedar, and various other things; even The Siouan Indians
- A sudden flash of lightning lit everything up for a second.
- Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
