Examples of lightning rod in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Etched into one wall was a 13-foot-long procession of almond-eyed deities, led by Hadad, a storm god who was identified by his three-pronged lightning rod and headdress with a five-point star. — New York Times, 12 May 2022 The issue of masking is a political lightning rod ahead of the midterm elections and one the administration has not sought to aggressively fight since mask mandates have already been lifted in much of the country. — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2022 In the world of music, when Marin Alsop became the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s music director in 2007 — the first woman to head a major American symphony — a conductor became a lightning rod. — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022 Coming Home became a lightning rod in discussions of veterans' issues and the resources available to soldiers returning home, as did two other films of the late 1970s, Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2022 The issue of short-term rentals has become a lightning rod in coastal communities. — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022 Critical race theory, an academic theory that's been taught at the collegiate level for decades, has recently become a lightning rod in conservative politics. — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2022 California’s famous 1970s-era cap on property taxes, Proposition 13, has long been a lightning rod in the state’s housing wars. — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2022 Although Comcast has been a lightning rod in Washington, D.C. at times, the CEO is promising to leave no doorbell unrung in the hunt for new pipelines into America’s living rooms. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022 See More

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“Lightning rod.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lightning%20rod. Accessed 23 May. 2022.

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