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Example sentences for "ball lightning"

  • At present our knowledge of ball lightning is limited, and we have only the principal facts of nature to contribute to the elucidation of the problem.

  • We are still far from understanding the interesting problem of the formation and nature of ball lightning.

  • In truth, ball lightning seems in a certain measure to escape the influence of lightning conductors.

  • A ball lightning bolt, even of only warning size, makes things uncomfortable when it strikes.

  • Ball lightning was an area of space so stressed that its energy-content could leak out only very slowly, unless it made contact with a conductor, when all bets were off.

  • He returned to his adaptation of the Lawlor drive to the production of ball lightning.

  • But a switch cut out certain elements of the Lawlor unit and cut in those others which made the modified drive-unit into a ball lightning projector.

  • I think, myself, that thousands of objects have been seen to fall from aloft, and have exploded luminously, and have been called "ball lightning.

  • The supposition in Nature is that it was "ball lightning," but Flammarion, Thunder and Lightning, p.

  • Humphreys has tentatively suggested that all genuine cases of ball lightning are "stalled thunderbolts"; i.

  • Ball lightning" takes the form of a fiery mass (not always globular), which generally moves quite deliberately through the air or along the ground, and in many cases disappears with a violent detonation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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