How to Use lightning strike in a Sentence

lightning strike

noun
  • The launch pad endured a lightning strike on April 27, but SpaceX said the rocket was healthy for the attempt.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The launch pad endured a lightning strike on April 27, but SpaceX said the rocket was healthy for the attempt.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024
  • Not even a 2011 lightning strike and fire could shutter the Wanamaker Feed & Seed.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In one last piece of trauma for Meredith, the house caught fire after a lightning strike in the fall finale (no one was hurt).
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, the switch would still be in place, happily doing its thing, if not for a lightning strike near my home a couple of months back.
    Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But no one has pinpointed the proverbial lightning strike that sparked it into life.
    Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • On June 5, a storm chaser captured video of a massive lightning strike in the Catalinas that soon would wind the lockdown more tightly.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • The fire, which was extinguished in less than an hour, is believed to have been caused by a lightning strike, said Jason Evans, a spokesman for the department.
    Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • The second phase, E2, produces current similar to that of a lightning strike.
    IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2024
  • Anyone who watches the moon glide over the sun on April 8 will be witnessing the planetary version of a lightning strike.
    Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
  • However, there's no evidence the church was hosting a Pride event prior to the lightning strike.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
  • In addition to the lightning strike, Caviezel was also toppled by a cross weighing over 150 pounds while filming.
    Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 6 July 2023
  • The race started Saturday but was suspended after 25 laps because of a lightning strike in the area.
    Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • Deaths are more likely to occur during lightning strike in the summertime in the afternoon or evening.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The test aims to confirm that the plane is properly grounded against electrical currents like a lightning strike.
    Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 7 May 2024
  • Fire science is a complicated thing: A blaze might arise from a lightning strike, a hot car on tall summer grass, snapped power lines.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 12 June 2023
  • In April, a boat captain was killed in a lightning strike that hit his vessel off the central Florida coast near Orlando.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • New moved back to Korea to start a pharmaceutical company, Yuhan Corp, and Smith was killed in a lightning strike.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2023
  • On April 8, anyone who watches in wonder as the moon silently glides over the sun will be witnessing the planetary version of a lightning strike.
    Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Bosque County authorities said the father was pronounced dead at the time of the lightning strike, and Grayson was hospitalized.
    Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
  • Suppose, for example, that a lightning strike or a collision with a large bird damages a rotor blade.
    Kamesh Namuduri, IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2023
  • Four years later, two people were injured in a lightning strike while watching fireworks in South Boston.
    Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The game will resume in 30 minutes unless another lightning strike is detected, in which case the 30-minute clock will reset.
    Evan Dudley, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Blake Lively stars as Adaline Bowman, a woman who dies in the 1930s but is revived by a lightning strike that also prevents her from aging.
    Kevin Jacobsen and Sammi Burke, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The connection is not direct - rising carbon emissions in the atmosphere don't drop the cigarette, or down the power line, or create the lightning strike that sets things ablaze.
    Shannon Osaka, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Defender Stefan Panic nearly hit a lightning strike just before the half.
    Lynn Ramsey, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Two months out from an election, authorities are blaming the latest shortages on a lightning strike on a pumping station, and also pointing to the heat wave.
    Sarah Dean, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
  • His office blames a heat wave for surging demand, as well as events out of the municipal government's control — like a lightning strike at a water pump station at the start of March.
    Kate Bartlett, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • As memorable as her pink hair was a lightning strike Rapinoe authored, just three minutes after entering in the second half.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In 2021, the monument closed for at least four consecutive days because of a lightning strike that caused damage to its electrical system, which took days to repair.
    Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024

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