lightning bolt

Setting up the company “came to me as a lightning bolt last summer,” Lear tells me.

His "lightning bolt" moment came when he saw Arthur Miller's All My Sons for the first time.

She inspired the designer to craft a brilliant silver minidress with a lightning-bolt head ornament.

A lightning bolt striking his Manhattan apartment ends his tidy, orderly self-centered academic life for good.

Unannounced, it had proclaimed the frailty of human life more effectively than if it had revealed itself in a lightning bolt.

And he smiled calmly at Donnegan in the manner of one who, having escaped the lightning bolt itself, does not fear mere thunder.

Dane set his hands on the parapet of the river drop, blinked as a lightning bolt crackled in a sky-splitting glare of violet fire.

Later, a lightning bolt destroyed one; two years after, an equinoctial gale blew the other half across the mossy roof.

No lightning-bolt struck, yet that thunder-storm indubitably played its part in Missy's athletic destiny.