Sentence examples for a thunderbolt in from inspiring English sources

If she had, it might have been the teen who found a thunderbolt in her mailbox.

"There has been a thunderbolt in the minds of people there," said Sezgin Tanrikulu, a Kurdish member of Turkey's Parliament, referring to Kurdish areas in southeast Turkey.

An erstwhile Turkish diplomatist visiting in St . Petersburg with whom I have had an interview, told me that the Italian ultimatum was like a thunderbolt in Constantinople.

Well meant or not, his stepfather's intercession freed the young Haneke to pursue his other great passion, one that arrived like a thunderbolt in the winter of 1948.

The dilemma was solved by a thunderbolt: In May 1794, President George Washington nominated him as American minister to the Hague.

Chinese wine tasters have sipped their way to victory at a blind tasting competition in France, sealing a win that organisers described as a "thunderbolt in the world of wine".

Would the Situation, after a torrid hookup, think of himself as the "frightened colt just hit by a thunderbolt," described in Porter's "I Am in Love?" Or would he go to the nearest mirror to admire his abs?

That band would be Alabama Shakes, whose Bowery Ballroom set early on Thursday night was a thunderbolt dressed in bluejeans.

A computer is plugged into the dock using a Thunderbolt port in order to gain access to the dock's three USB ports, audio jacks, HDMI and ethernet.

However, the comedies represented at the time, which, both in good earnest and in merriment, let fly many hard words at him, plainly show that he got that appellation especially from his speaking; they speak of his "thundering and lightning" when he harangued the people, and of his wielding a dreadful thunderbolt in his tongue.

I knew a thunderbolt had happened in my life.