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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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Example Sentences

Either he had met death willingly, or it had come to him without warning, like a lightning stroke.

Two hundred years ago Agayentah, a wise and honored member of the Seneca tribe, was killed here by a lightning-stroke.

She was like some little brilliant bird of paradise flung to the ground by a lightning stroke.

A lightning stroke so near and sharp that I fancied I could hear the hiss was accompanied by a savage thunder-clap.

His having called the death of his darling his lightning-stroke must have been the origin of the report that he died of lightning.

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