thunderbolt

Example Sentences

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Ermedin Demirovic unleashed a thunderbolt in the 90th minute to send Stuttgart into the top four with a 1-0 home win over Freiburg in the Bundesliga on Sunday.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

The same familiar blue and gold thunderbolt greeted Mike Williams as he drove through the welcoming Southern California streets.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 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