Examples of electrical storm in a Sentence
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Hannah acknowledged guests' frustrations when the park shuts down to wait out an electrical storm; rides and attractions close for 30 minutes after each lightning strike within 10 miles.
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Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
Only a violent electrical storm could produce such an atmospheric uproar, the bureau said, and there had been no electrical storm that day.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
Seizures are like sudden electrical storms in the brain.
—Synphane Gibbs-Shelton, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
Late Monday, and early Tuesday, torrents of rain finally fell in Washington, amid the flickering lightning of a summertime electrical storm.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
Finding out that Rabanne, who’d seemed as atmospheric as an electrical storm, had been a human being who actually walked the earth, came as a shock.
—Rich Cohen, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
In a different motion piece, Wu simulated an electrical storm in Goblin Valley, Utah, but with perfectly straight strikes of light rather than the jagged bursts of lightning.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
This disrupts the whole system, resulting in a chaotic electrical storm that throws the heart into spasms.
—Wendy Tzou, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
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Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
Only a violent electrical storm could produce such an atmospheric uproar, the bureau said, and there had been no electrical storm that day.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
Seizures are like sudden electrical storms in the brain.
—Synphane Gibbs-Shelton, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
Late Monday, and early Tuesday, torrents of rain finally fell in Washington, amid the flickering lightning of a summertime electrical storm.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
Finding out that Rabanne, who’d seemed as atmospheric as an electrical storm, had been a human being who actually walked the earth, came as a shock.
—Rich Cohen, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
In a different motion piece, Wu simulated an electrical storm in Goblin Valley, Utah, but with perfectly straight strikes of light rather than the jagged bursts of lightning.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
This disrupts the whole system, resulting in a chaotic electrical storm that throws the heart into spasms.
—Wendy Tzou, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
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First Known Use
1843, in the meaning defined above
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“Electrical storm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrical%20storm. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
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electrical storm
noun
: thunderstorm
called also electric storm
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