like lightning
Example Sentences
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Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Musk pushed back, saying on X that “SpaceX is moving like lightning compared to the rest of the space industry.”
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
“I feel like lightning did strike twice — and then some.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024
It looked like lightning was going to strike twice at the City Ground.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023
He twisted round like lightning, all wet and slimy as he was, wriggling like an eel, biting and scratching like a cat.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
