heat lightning
Example Sentences
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Many blazes are triggered by heat, lightning, winds and other factors that are harder to predict in advance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023
She recalled certain images: heat lightning traveling from cloud to cloud, tall grasses, gas flares on the horizon, droves of red-winged blackbirds.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2019
Through the dark humid air, Hardy could see mountains lit by sudden flashes of heat lightning, the boom of thunder echoing over the water.
From Washington Post
As the Sit-Down fever flashed like heat lightning over the land, ten farmhands on Charles M. Schwab's estate at Loretto.
From Time Magazine Archive
It must have been a burst of heat lightning, he thought, reflecting off the low clouds.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
