Sentence examples for strokes of lightning from inspiring English sources

The world gets some 16,000,000 thunderstorms annually, and is hit by 2 billion strokes of lightning.

Multiple strokes of lightning appear to flicker because the human eye is just capable of resolving the time interval between them.

None of the wild weather -- the lashing hailstorms, passing hurricanes or strokes of lightning -- really bothered him, "because he was so confident in the strength of that building, he knew nothing could happen to it," said Jerry Vandagna, his father-in-law.

The discharges accompany rare but powerful strokes of lightning that carry positively charged currents.

It looks rather like a stroke of lightning.

In reality, Numerian had died either a natural death or from a stroke of lightning.

But once Mr. Hill arrived, as Mr. Schneider put it, "the play exploded like a sudden storm, one stroke of lightning, one thunderclap after another".

This past weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival, Stone publicly called for President Obama to pardon Snowden adding that he hopes "Mr. Obama has a stroke of lightning" and realizes he has created "the most extensive invasive surveillance state that ever existed".

Do not expect stars to fall from the sky, the rumble of thunder or a stroke of lightning to give some signs.

Such systems measure time, location, flash polarity, and stroke count of lightning strikes.

(42nd St ., two oscillograph machines which record the duration and intensity of lightning strokes, and a fourth camera on a building at Eighth Ave .and 34th St. Details on thunderstorms and storm warnings.