How to Use electrical storm in a Sentence

electrical storm

noun
  • They were installed during the summer of 1958 but have been silent since an electrical storm last year.
    Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
  • In 1977, a boy (Oakes Fegley) who has become deaf in an electrical storm seeks his father.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • In road biking, the danger is more like the risk of getting struck by lightning while running around on a mesa during an electrical storm with a tin hat on your head.
    Daniel Duane, Outside Online, 18 May 2021
  • This disrupts the whole system, resulting in a chaotic electrical storm that throws the heart into spasms.
    Wendy Tzou, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This disrupts the whole system, resulting in a chaotic electrical storm that throws the heart into spasms.
    Wendy Tzou, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The fire in Zamora was started by a strike from an electrical storm on Wednesday, authorities said.
    Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2022
  • In the event of civil war, a labor strike, an earthquake or electrical storm, the city of St. Paul could put its residential trash collection contract on hold — at least for a time.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The bolt from an electrical storm hit the 45-meter high carbon mast of the eight-time line honors winner, which was ashore in a cradle at Woolwich dock undergoing pre-race checks.
    Euan McKirdy, CNN, 28 Dec. 2017
  • While the ceremony was set to take place outside, an unexpected electrical storm hit and caused it to be moved indoors.
    Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • There is a violent electrical storm as the pair trudge along the shore, but the Kid’s presence and purpose remain unilluminated as Bobby asks all the wrong questions about life, death, and guilt.
    Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • In the place where the lens would go is a device that picks up emissions from oxygen molecules that get excited by the energy of an electrical storm: a lightning detector.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Snow during winter months and electrical storms during summer months.
    WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
  • But now, 28 years later, newer methods are reviving the possibility that music can be the calm that prevents the brain’s electrical storm.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
  • After a busy day of engagements in Lahore, the royal couple were traveling back to Islamabad on a jet when a terrifying electrical storm hit.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Normally, such an ion channel would be invisible—but if there happens to be an electrical storm underway, the channel would offer a conduit for lightning.
    Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • Original Cuisine Sichuan cuisine may best be known as a raging electrical storm, widely beloved for its explosive and incendiary nature.
    Dominic Armato, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • Though the ceremony was originally supposed to take place outside, it was moved inside after an unexpected electrical storm hit.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Doctors at a local hospital were unable to quell her brain's electrical storm with powerful antiseizure medications.
    Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019

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