Sentence examples for a streak of lightning from inspiring English sources

Her forehand drive is deadly, a streak of lightning, and her backhand, which ordinarily is purely a defensive stroke with most women, and with most men, too, is also a strong attacking weapon.

Faster than a streak of lightning, the moody "Man of Steel" over the weekend resuscitated a director's career (Zack Snyder), minted a new movie star (Henry Cavill) and reversed a soft streak for Hollywood's biggest studio (Warner Brothers).

It's those propulsive, breathtaking, suffocating forces inside us that make those moments so vivid and shocking, it's what's inside us that cracks the landscape open, shocking and illuminating like a streak of lightning.

In London they want to install a gigantic Tesla coil between the smokestacks of Battersea Power Station, so that an electric bolt may strike on occasion, sending a streak of lightning fizzing across the sky.

A streak of lightning jagged down the sky.

Immediately a light darted before them, as if it were a streak of lightning.

Nychos' creatures are lit up by a recurring streak of lightning, that flashes across the canvas revealing skeletal structures that resemble cartoon characters when they get electrocuted.

Nicknamed the Human Streak of Lightning, Bey dazzled with unprecedented racket skills and exceptional speed.

But Mr. Damon, who has shed much of his boyish ingenuousness (he is beginning to suggest the grown-up Robert Wagner), plays him as a cunning escape artist and technophile, with lightning reflexes as well as a streak of sadness.

PANTHERS 3, LIGHTNING 1: Tampa Bay, with Roberto Luongo making 36 saves, ended a streak of six games without a victory.

A streak of cockiness didn't help.