Sentence examples for a bolt for from inspiring English sources

The Israelis say a bolt for the bomb might be detectable but might not be.

After I'd said hello to the cats I made a bolt for the back door.

Watch the 'Vantage Point' trailer When director Pete Travis abandons the single-viewpoint schtick in the last 20 minutes and makes a bolt for the finishing line, the film becomes like any other confection of murder and mayhem.

The movie is about development and change of sorts, at least for Phil and his wife, when on the same day Rory has a heart attack and Phil makes a bolt for freedom, switching off his mobile and car radio and driving to the Kent coast, which proves as bleak and lonely as his daily existence in town.

Three of us had hitchhiked – as we often did, surviving lifts such as the one from the psychotic HGV driver whose party trick was to jack-knife his vehicle in front of unsuspecting car drivers, or the spanking headmaster who prompted one of us to make a bolt for it at the traffic lights after mentioning the instruments of torture he kept in the boot.

So I made a bolt for it, and somehow wound up watching a Take That tribute act at a bar called The Old Tramshed.

Krygier's observations were a bolt of lightning for me.

"I can't even get a bolt of khaki for that much.

The Tea Party phenomenon has provided a bolt of energy for the Republican Party.

The show was a bolt of lightning for Broadway, illuminating the field in the same way that Hair did in 1968 and Hamilton is doing today.

Miliband said the news had come as a bolt from the blue for his constituents.