Sentence examples for bolt struck from inspiring English sources

When the bolt struck, dozens of people were thrown to the ground.

They shut up, only when another bolt struck the steeple of the Methodist Church.

"When I heard the news of his death," Bradley said, "it was like a lightning bolt struck my heart".

Later, during an evening thunderstorm, a lightning bolt struck the dome of St. Peter's, though the meaning, if any, was not immediately clear.

Eleven members of a remote indigenous tribe in Colombia have been killed when a lightning bolt struck a thatch-roofed hut where they were gathered.

This week the bolt struck at the European Union, when the Swiss voted for restrictions on Europe's much-cherished free movement of people.

You could almost see the wrathful lightning bolt striking down from the heavens.

A sign from God? Video footage shows a lightning bolt striking the Vatican's St Peter's Basilica, just hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his surprise resignation on Monday.

Here was the man who saw that four-paned glass streetlights were easier to maintain than globe-shaped ones; here was the inventor of the lightning rod, at a time when a single bolt striking a cache of gunpowder could kill 3,000 people in Venice.

Lightning also produced damage in the state, with one bolt striking an oil tank, igniting a fire.

Immediately before the particles reach their intended destination, a lightning bolt strikes the laboratory and interferes with the accelerator, causing the unforeseen particle fusion and an explosion opening a hole in time and space, teleporting Lester to a barren, alien planet.