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Discover LudwigThe phrase "like a thunderbolt" is an expression which is used in written English and conversation.
It is used to emphasize the speed with which something happens. Example: The news spread through the town like a thunderbolt.
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Hernandez wrote the following about Puig, "The throw was a like a thunderbolt from right field, a gift from the baseball gods to the fans who continue to support the most expensive last-place team in history.
It was like a thunderbolt!
Sometimes love arrives like a thunderbolt.
John Landgraf's comments arrived like a thunderbolt.
Decisive as ever, he returned to France like a thunderbolt.
Seconds later it hit me like a thunderbolt.
"When I walked back into that gym it hit me like a thunderbolt.
It hit her like a thunderbolt: There needs to be a Blexit.
The words come like a thunderbolt at the end of the poem, without preparation or warning.
—New York prosecutor John McConnell "The news last night from New York sounds like a thunderbolt.
Bursting like a thunderbolt upon Oliver O. Howard's XI Corps late in the afternoon, Jackson crushed this wing.
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