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lightning stroke

noun

  1. a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage
  2. vet science sudden death due to being struck by lightning, esp of cattle, horses or sheep
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Can you remember any other college team that passes this intricately, defends this beautifully, plays this unselfishly, and gets the ball down the court after a steal or missed basket with such a lightning stroke of blurry ballet?

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I took my soaking brush in hand, stroked my gold cake, and a cat streaked out on my paper in one lightning stroke, whiskers, tail, meow and all!

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The wire invented by the sceptic Franklin defends the crosses on our churches from the lightning stroke of heaven.

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He was kind, compassionate, and tender, and could not fall upon his knees before a cruel and revengeful God—he could not bow to one who slew with famine, sword and fire—to one pitiless as pestilence, relentless as the lightning stroke.

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A lightning stroke of one of her shapeless fore-paws, and Tipperary was free.

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