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sheet lightning

noun as in lightning that appears as sheet not streak

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She’d harvested wheat in Montana, watching the entire sky flash with sheet lightning.

Anyway, if the tornadoes don’t suck the air out of your lungs and toss you like a rag doll, and if the swarm of nails doesn’t go through you like shotgun pellets, there’s still the sheet lightning.

At the top of the stairs, I spot some sheet lightning in the distance, which is one of my favorite kinds.

Last month, I was anchored with Cat in Sardinia when monstrous winds rushed in with thunder and sheet lightning illuminating the full filmic horror of it.

"I've never seen a storm with such frequent lightning in my life I don't think. Mostly sheet lightning and not too loud but flashes are spectacular."

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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