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

The attack fell like a thunderbolt on the country’s tightly knit Jewish community.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

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

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

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

The revelation that one could find free food just sitting on a stump in the woods landed on Joe like a thunderbolt.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown