How to Use lightning in a Sentence

lightning

1 of 2 noun

• But more lightning is the new thing.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
• Don't want to get struck by lightning?
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
• Sign up here to stay lightning on your feet.
  — Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Dec. 2025
• Her house was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026
• The main threats are heavy rain, lightning, gusty winds and small hail.
  — Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
• Might be hard to get out of lightning window.
  — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
• At that point a lightning bolt forced a delay.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
• The game was marred by a lightning delay and rain.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
• At that point, a lightning bolt forced a delay.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
• Will that lightning in the bottle strike again this year?
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
• The doctor told me the uv of the lightning of the stage did it.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
• The fire is assumed to have been sparked by lightning.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• Who were the hikers who were struck by lightning?
  — Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
• The lightning bolts are still used as a sign of white supremacy.
  — Aria Jones, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Bear in mind, a tent does not protect you from lightning.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 28 June 2026
• It is believed that lightning caused the fire.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• So with the lightning hold lifted, the field filed down pit lane.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2026
• In the distance, low clouds hung and lightning flashed.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
• The thunder came with the lightning; the beast was right on top of you.
  — Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
• At this time, the sky grew dark and was filled with thunder and lightning.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• If Texas doesn't strike you as a very en-lightning place, think again.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 16 Feb. 2026
• There is no lightning bolt required.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• Rhea has a wondrous laugh, which cracks the air like a lightning bolt of joy.
  — Britt Lower, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• The symptom that had brought her there was a lightning bolt-like pain in her head.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• Ricks’s metaphors are perhaps too much like lightning, more about light than heat.
  — Katie Kadue, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• This is your moment to sift through the noise and find the lightning bolt of truth.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
• Striking lightning twice won’t be easy.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
• That sound of thunder, lightning, rain.
  — NBC news, 7 June 2026
• After all, this is the time to try to catch lightning in a bottle.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
• His image split down the middle as if cleaved in half by the lightning.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026

lightning

2 of 2 verb

• The main storm threats would be lightning, brief heavy rain and wind damage.
  — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
• That’s about half as likely as getting struck by lightning in a year.
  — William Petri, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2021
• That’s about the chance of being struck by lightning at some point in your lifetime.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• Ackley shared an auction for a tractor that was struck by lightning this year.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Each sport is lightning fast, and his experience with each feeds the rest.
  — Ethan McDowell, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• Hundreds of those tress are believed to have been burned in that fire, which was sparked by lightning last month.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
• Two flawed, heartbroken men are struck by lightning at the same moment.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2022
• Cleveland’s Caldwell was once struck by lightning on the mound.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2020
• In seventy-two hours, the state was struck by lightning eleven thousand times.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• That's still lightning speed compared with other projects in the region.
  — Washington Post, 4 July 2021
• Each year, more than 200 people are killed by lightning in the country.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
• There will also be lightning deals throughout the day, when certain items will be on sale for a very brief few hours.
  — Alexis Rhiannon, Allure, 27 Nov. 2020
• At least two buildings appear to have been struck by lightning as the severe storms were moving through.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2021
• The pain starts on the roof of your mouth and within an instant feels like lightning bolts bouncing inside your skull.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• The complex was made up of three fires started by lightning on July 7.
  — Gillian Flaccus, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
• That comes to less than three-hundredths of a percent, or about the chance of being struck by lightning at some point in your lifetime.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• The fire was sparked by lightning last weekend, according to the department's tweets.
  — Alana Minkler, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2020
• The 5-foot-6 guard, who is lightning quick, is one of the rare players in the game who can make an impact on both ends of the court.
  — Doug Feinberg, courant.com, 4 Apr. 2021
• That audit rate of three-hundredths of one percent is about the chance of your being struck by lightning at some point in your lifetime.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The 5-foot-6 guard, who is lightning quick, is one of the rare two-way players in the game who can make an impact on both ends of the court.
  — Kristen Davis, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2021
• Not quite the odds of winning the Powerball and being hit by lightning on the same day, but not much better, either.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2021
• Carlos Ramos was one of a group of people gathered at the beach who were struck by lightning during a fast-moving storm.
  — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2021
• Regardless, the field will line up by class with the DPi cars starting at the front, rain or shine (but not lightning).
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2021
• The 5-foot-6-inch guard, who is lightning quick, is one of the rare two-way players in the game who can impact contests on both ends of the court.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• To do this, he must be struck by lightning and learn the art of clairvoyance from Don Cosme, an old callawaya who reads fortunes in town.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
• In the last two weeks of June, 12 new fires started by lightning after a system of storms moved through Arizona.
  — Audrey Jensen, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2021
• The Clear Fire started by lightning last week and had grown to more than 9,500 acres on Monday.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
• The fires, sparked by lightning Thursday, range in size from less than an acre to more than 300 acres, according to fire officials.
  — oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2021
• The fire, sparked by lightning July 4 in Alpine County, has destroyed at least 10 buildings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
• The Sugar fire was one of two fires sparked by lightning in the forest around the same time that together have been dubbed the Beckwourth Complex fire.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021