Sentence examples for in a flash of lightning from inspiring English sources

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In a flash.

If something happens in a flash, it happens very quickly indeed.

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First, "on the roof tree", a cock crows "In a flash of lightning".

"You witness something, and it happens in a flash of lightning," Ms. Rothenberg said of these paintings.

At the same time, the package design was altered, and the concept slogan was added: "Delicious taste in a flash of lightning!" In August 2003, the package was changed again to its current design, in which alphabetic font for the brand name was replaced with Japanese lettering in katakana.

The main advertising slogan translates to "Delicious taste in a flash of lightning!" The story of the Yuraku Confectionery Company and its Black Thunder bar has been treated in the Japanese business press as something of a modern-day rags to riches story.

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Stone-faced, he strutted to the mound in steady rain while a flash of lightning ripped the sky over Queens, followed by a growl of thunder.

So the era that began on a hot June night in France 12 years ago with a flash of lightning – Owen's scamper through the Argentinian defence – and a roll of thunder – Beckham's red card – is finally over.

Then, as the stage action proceeds, he develops it powerfully, bringing it back often, in hauntingly different versions: like a flash of lightning, like a slow but tremendous warning, like an irresistible undertow.

If you're a Buddhist — I am not — you know that the material world is a phantom or a dream, "a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp," as the Buddha puts it in the Diamond Sutra.

This may have been "just one event in a busy season, but, like a flash of lightning, it illuminated a musical world on the verge of traumatic change.

When I was finally able to follow him up – pulling myself to the top of the 50-metre vertical ascent as the sun set in a golden arc beneath the rain – a flash of lightning exploded suddenly by our side.

If this student ever perceives someone isn't treating me well or I am in "danger," he comes to my rescue like a flash of lightning.

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