The phrase "a sort of lightning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or has qualities similar to lightning, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The sudden realization struck her like a sort of lightning, illuminating her thoughts in an instant."
Alternatives: "a kind of lightning" or "a type of lightning".
It's this collaborative, fluid approach to culture, music and history which has allowed Huxtable to become a sort of lightning conductor for her peers.
Every May on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, representatives from these and other companies meet for a sort of lightning TED-style talks to share their success and failures in tackling these issues.
But they also argue that Pelotas serves as a sort of lightning rod for the sexual insecurities of a country in which the ideals of machismo still hold sway.
For a community perpetually disenchanted by the political "Establishment"—a group for which Hillary Clinton is seen as the poster girl Sanders's surprisingly successful presidential run has become a sort of lightning rod for its hopes and aspirations.
The alternative is the infamous maotai, a sort of white lightning that may become repugnant the third or fourth time around.
She said, "I am deeply concerned by the polarization that these terms represent, by the way in which this film has become a sort of a lightning rod in which people can use religion as a tool to bludgeon other people".
Griffin is now selling all sorts of Lightning cables.
When I suggest that Matthias kept him as a sort of anti-mascot, a lightning rod to draw off divine wrath, Tanner hits me with an astonishing fact.
Blockchain hired Mats Jerratsch and started working on a sort of implementation of a Lightning network.
Ever since "Duck Dynasty , a series about a Louisiana family that makes duck calls, started to take off in Season 2 last fall, everyone in the reality show business has been hoping to catch the same sort of lightning in a bottle.
