thunderbolt

Example Sentences

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A first-half thunderbolt from Ghana striker Koenigsdoerffer put Hamburg on track for a 2-0 victory at Heidenheim.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

That’s why the revision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its advisory on vaccines and autism struck like a thunderbolt, and not in a good way.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

While sticking Cillo into a varsity game would attract a thunderbolt of attention, Clark has been waiting for an appropriate moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

The higher-for-longer inflation predicament has hit the U.S. housing market like a thunderbolt.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Of them all he was foremost, as was proved by the extraordinary fact that poets report, that when Zeus wished to use his thunderbolt, it was Pegasus who brought the thunder and lightning to him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton