The phrase "a lightning bolt in the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, often metaphorically, to describe something sudden, impactful, or striking.
Example: "The idea struck her like a lightning bolt in the middle of the meeting, leaving everyone in awe."
Alternatives: "a flash of inspiration" or "a sudden realization".
After decades in disrepute, this figure reappeared like a lightning bolt in the person of that scowling troubadour of a thousand faces, Bob Dylan.
This is the kind of madcap comedy in which a key plot point is delivered by a lightning bolt in the middle of a wedding and love founders on a girlfriend's tendency to wear lipstick "one shade too fauvist".
I'd get calls from the school nurse saying my daughter has stomach pains and I'd have to ask, 'Did you hear thunder?' She was constantly checking the weather map to see if there was a lightning bolt in the picture.
Using a transformer, the team recreated a lightning bolt in the lab by passing 200,000 volts across a 30cm (12in) air gap.
The result of Lomonosov came into the scene like a lightning bolt in a clear sky, generalizing all the previously known results and introducing the use of the Schauder fixed point theorem as a new technique to produce invariant subspaces.
Most of all, however, critics repeatedly praised Mr. Hofmann's appearance — svelte, strapping, square-jawed and profusely blond — which cut through the opera world like a lightning bolt in an era when singers tended toward the mountainous, the immovable and the uncomely.
("Basically, you'd be driving around with a lightning bolt in your tailpipe," Gavin says).
Stella McCartney's "metallic" silk and polyester shift pops like a lightning bolt in a heat storm ($1,530 at Intermix stores).
As Dionysus he delivers his baroque autobiography – "son of Zeus, born by a lightning bolt" – in a measured tone, as if he were a politician telling his constituency not to panic.
Buy a cheap face paint set at circus or right before Halloween and draw a lightning bolt in red on your forehead.
The last time a home run just like this one happened, an Australian lightning bolt in the 10th inning of the Atlanta Olympics, Fernandez got over it, and her United States softball team recovered to win the gold medal in Atlanta.
