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sheet lightning
noun as in lightning that appears as sheet not streak
Weak matches
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On which a shivering of eagerness, quick as winking sheet-lightning, shook Harris' right knee.
He turned again to the judge with a smile that played like sheet lightning over his haggard face and inquired humbly.
The white sheet lightning was still pulsing in the sky and rising, as it seemed, out of the sea, but I hardly saw it.
Sheet-lightning flickers above the mountain crests, painting everything white for an instant.
Across the stars was a dark veil, riven at long intervals with the copper of sheet lightning.
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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sheet lightning, such as: heat lightning, and summer lightning.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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