The word "thunderbolt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sudden, powerful display of lightning and thunder. For example, "The storm unleashed a thunderbolt that shook the entire neighborhood."
Countless flags, Rayo's red thunderbolt scorched across them.
Matt Ritchie's thunderbolt had threatened to take the roof off the Goldsands Stadium; Bournemouth were heading back to the top of the Championship.
Harry Arter fired them into an early lead with a 25-yard thunderbolt but Bruno Manga powered in a header to equalise in the second half.
THERE is no thunderbolt that the American right likes hurling at its foes more than the accusation of "anti-Americanism".
In her idle moments she daydreams about becoming a figure skater like those she has seen on television, gliding effortlessly across the ice in a flash of sequins.In this section Wings of the wind Beating up the boys in blue King and country East End moniker Empire discontinued Making the sound of music Reprints Related items New fiction (4): Pulling teethFeb 17th 2000Then comes the thunderbolt.
But to those who follow the market in Chinese artworks, news of the Hong Kong auction was nothing short of a thunderbolt.
Mr Bush upset many people by ripping apart the outdated anti-ballistic-missile defence treaty with Russia then baffled his critics by getting both Russia and (more hesitantly) China to go along with him.But it was the thunderbolt of September 11th that counted most.
Martine Aubry, the Socialist Party leader, called it a "thunderbolt".
While I was waiting for her, I turned on the television, and what I saw hit me like a thunderbolt.
A reality thunderbolt arrives in a manuscript from an unknown 13-year-old fan of his show, relating the years of sexual abuse which have left him in hospital with AIDS.
In reading, Mr Bell gives credit where credit is due, all the way from the story of the Corinthian maid in Pliny's "Natural History" to last week's thunderbolt from the intellectual barricades of Paris.
