Sentence examples for watched lightning from inspiring English sources

As the sun set, a summer storm was gathering, and Henry watched lightning flicker across the clouds.

Audience members waiting for the "Little Night Music" concert (also part of the Mostly Mozart Festival) to begin in the glass-walled Kaplan Penthouse afterward watched lightning illuminate the sky, providing an incongruous backdrop to the Borromeo Quartet's polished, expressive performance of Haydn's "Sunrise" String Quartet.

Some North Rim road shoulders were seared on June 25 , 2006 when sudden high winds turned a closely watched, lightning-ignited fire into an inferno, setting the crown of the forest alight.

If the weather's bad, I'll watch lightning flash around me and listen to thunder echoing between the mountains.

The tour may be called thunder, but to see Mr. Wooten pluck and slap his bass is like watching lightning.

Graeme Smith took on a wave of English hostility yesterday as he refused to walk when he was still a long way from a brilliant, clubbing 20th Test century and then he sat with his big shoulders hunched watching lightning flashes light up the storm-laden highveld sky.

I was nearly a goner once in Semerwater, 7C, limbs going numb, couldn't hug the shore because of the hurricane, just spent too long watching lightning over the hills, core temperature going through the floor, but nothing makes you feel more alive than nearly dying.

The fire crew in York spent part of it watching lightning zip across the sky.

I write this as I fly through the night, watching lightning course through thunderheads towering above the dark Caribbean.

Summer felt like the right time for these shows; you can ponder them while sitting in an old porch swing and watching lightning bugs wander through the yard.

He said he had trouble choosing just one, although one of the things he missed the most was the view of the Earth from above, especially watching lightning flashes in thunder clouds and seeing the lights slowly turn on down below as the station passed onto the night side of the Earth.