Sentence examples for a lightning in from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a lightning in" is not correct in standard written English
It is not a commonly used expression and does not convey a clear meaning. Example: "There was a sudden flash, like a lightning in the sky."

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Ah, the treachery of a stroke, a lightning in the skull and you're gone.

The buzz: "With all the jubilant skyward synths and angel-dusted production you can handle, Tryna Be is a lightning in a bottle debut that's good to the last drop" – Neon Gold.

But perhaps most evocative is: Fame is the one that does not stay — Its occupant must die Or out of sight of estimate Ascend incessantly — Or be that most insolvent thing A Lightning in the Germ — Electrical the embryo But we demand the Flame.

Farrelly: I knew people were looking at this as a smaller movie, but that's how they looked at There's Something About Mary and I knew that was a lightning in a bottle.

Hamish MacBain of NME writes that "the western world has moved on, and is now swinging to the tune of Is This It", while Pitchfork Media's Joe Colly suggests that "you only capture this kind of a lightning in a bottle once".

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While "The Dictator" provides ample evidence of Mr. Baron Cohen's commitment, it is also a reminder that his earlier work had a lightning-in-a-bottle quality.

Maybe The Force Awakens was a lightning-in-a-bottle moment, one that cannot be even close to replicated any more than any MCU movie may ever match the $623 million gross of The Avengers.

The vast majority of the Phase 2 movies were sequels, Guardians of the Galaxy was something of a lightning-in-a-bottle confection, and the over/under $400m respective worldwide totals of the Phase One originals won't quite cut it half-a-decade later.

As a result, the concert felt wonderfully impermanent, with a lightning-in-a-bottle energy.

We have enjoyed a lightning-in-a-bottle situation here in San Francisco.

So I always try to follow through with a real capture-lightning-in-a-bottle approach.

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