thunderbolt
Example Sentences
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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
“The storm built up, and built up and built up. The American Indian Movement was simply the thunderbolt.”
From Seattle Times
Some of the same people now likening the Alito draft to a thunderbolt.
From Washington Post
In the 2½ seasons the Warriors spent injured and irrelevant, you almost forgot what their pretty flow looked like — the slipped traps, the behind-the-back bounces on the back cuts and the thunderbolts into the post.
From Washington Post
But while they are all genuinely quick, that thunderbolt blitz is something that only Malik has right now.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
