Sentence examples for lightening struck from inspiring English sources

Uttar Pradesh: Thirteen people were killed and more than a dozen were injured when lightening struck parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, the state officials said Wednesday, according to an Indo-Asian News Service report.

Then the lights went out! On July 13th, a Wednesday I will never forget, lightening struck a bunch of power lines, and the city was in the dark for what seemed like the entire summer; but it was actually just a couple of days.

What are the odds of lightening striking twice?

"It's like a lightening strike in a field," says Susan.

"It's a constant search for that moment when lightening strikes," he said.

His mujahideen showed their verve last Sunday by capturing the small town of Diabaly, north of Mopti, with a lightening strike that originated over the border in Mauritania.

But in the past few weeks we've been lashed by hail, dust storms, lightening strikes and flash flooding – with more to come.

Five hundred years before the coming of Jesus, the ceaseless harassment and lightening strikes of the nomadic Scythians blunted the best efforts by King Darius I of Persia to subdue them.

Lightening strikes St Peter's on day #Pope Benedict announces resignation from Vatican (pic ANSA) http://t.co/09KGgZNl — Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) 11 Feb 13 — ROBERT MACKEY As the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reports, the Catholic News Service has published a complete list of the cardinals, "from oldest to youngest, eligible to vote for a pope in a conclave".

Overwhelmed by Isis's lightening strikes on several fronts, and having suffered a severe defeat in the Sinjar area in western Nineveh, the peshmerga commanders claimed that the latest retreats were a tactical move to regroup and re-establish themselves in defensible positions mostly on the tops of mountains and hills.

It's about time they let that lightening strike.