Sentence examples for lightning killing from inspiring English sources

From my diary entry dated November 19: "Last night I had another dream about lightning killing people, only instead of it being at prom this time it was inside the school.

Here's a few of my favourites... 1998: Every player on the visiting soccer team at a game in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was struck by a fork bolt of lightning, killing them all instantly.

On average, lightning kills 70 Americans and injures 300 annually.

Last year lightning killed six elephants huddled together in Kruger National Park.

Lightning kills between 6,000 and 24,000 people worldwide each year.

And in a typical year, lightning kills more people than tornadoes or hurricanes.

A bolt of lightning killed a man hiking in mountains in south-west Poland on Saturday.

Nonie becomes hysterical, swears and shouts at her father to let the lightning kill them instead of her.

Lightning killed a Baltimore girl, a camper in upstate New York and a Minnesota farmer holding a pitchfork.

A bolt of lightning killed two Austrians as they climbed a mountain in this northern Italian region, the ANSA news agency reported today.

Lightning killed three cows and destroyed a house, and damage was estimated around $750,000.