Sentence examples for speed of lightning from inspiring English sources

"They can change directions at the speed of lightning".

Compared to the fight for racial equality, that is change at the speed of lightning.

"My daughter, with the speed of lightning, just goes from one to the other.

"It travels with the speed of lightning, I've heard, and it can kill a person in four hours," said Jean Michel Maximilien, a camp leader.

Underdog's Day Underdog, the floppy-eared, beaglesque crime-battling television cartoon dog of the 1960's and 70's whose theme song proclaimed, "speed of lightning, roar of thunder/ fighting all who rob or plunder," may be resurrected as the star of a Disney live-action feature.

In a world where businesses move with the speed of lightning, there is a constant battle to stay on the cusp of the wave.

Lightning discharge is searched for by high speed sampling of lightning flashes.

(An American would not write "Who said 'I cannot tell a lie?' ") A line from "My Fair Lady" is misquoted ("The Arabs learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning").

A driver who does not relent in his demands on colleagues, children or wife, he has moments of cold, angry withdrawal when the ugliness strikes with the speed of a lightning bolt and is followed by a pitiful remorse.

Perhaps it is more useful to use the words "outward" and "inward" to differentiate between those technologies that interact with the outer world at the speed of the lightning-quick mind, and those that serve the inner concerns of the contemplative, reflective and slower soul.

If Middlesbrough had put up a fight, it is likely that they would have lost, anyway – such was Bournemouth's speed of thought and lightning counterattacking.