The phrase "a lightning visit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very brief or quick visit, often implying that the visit was unexpected or hurried.
Example: "She made a lightning visit to the office just to drop off the documents before heading to her next meeting."
Alternatives: "a quick visit" or "a brief visit".
I paid a lightning visit to Palo Seco.
A lightning visit calls for a deft impressionist touch.
The plan was outlined by Mr Obama during a lightning visit to Australia, marking the 60th anniversary of a security pact between the two countries.
A lightning visit to Wroclaw by Tim Geithner, America's treasury secretary, to express his alarm over the "catastrophic risk" of cascading sovereign defaults seemed to have little impact.
President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia arrived in rebellious Aceh province today for a lightning visit aimed at soothing tensions but already marred by two small explosions.
It was Miami City Ballet lite when this ever-enterprising company, directed by Edward Villella, made a lightning visit here tonight.
Bernie Sanders railed against the inequalities of capitalism at a Vatican conference Friday during an unusual, lightning visit to Rome, days before the crucial New York presidential primary.
It doesn't sound much, one call a week, but when your weeks stretch endlessly ahead, punctuated by nothing except perhaps the odd lightning visit from a carer who has barely a moment to speak, then a friendly weekly phone call and chat can mean a lot.
Last weekend Mr Chirac's new, centre-right prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, paid his own lightning visit to Corsica and announced an approach virtually identical to Mr Jospin's.Why is Mr Raffarin being given the presidential nod?
Following her lightning visit to Athens on Tuesday, a new poll for broadcaster ZDF has shown that, for the first time in more than a year, more Germans think Greece should stay in the eurozone than want it to leave.
Everywhere the headline is: "Blitzbesuch" - lightning visit, conveying the drama of the flight but also a sense of a man being thrown into a whirlwind of crisis.
