One hoof touches a twig; like lightning it spreads and drops, after running for the smallest fraction of a second along the obstacle to know whether to relax or stiffen, or rise or fall to meet it.
As a fish swam up to his chum he would spear it like lightning; throw his head back and wriggle it head-first down his long neck; then settle down to watch for the next one.
Somehow it never does jolt the life out of him, notwithstanding his great weight; nor does it interfere in any way with his speed of action, which is like lightning, the instant he touches the ground.
The blue veins played beneath her arched forehead, like lightning beneath a rainbow.
He drew the cork from his bottle like lightning, and mouthed at his companions even while he bowed to them.
She lived only for revenge-- "Like lightning fire, To speed one bolt of ruin and expire!
Stratagems were flashing through his head like lightning, and at the same time he roared with all his power: "Whoever believes in God!
Now a new division of fugitives rushed by like lightning.
She gives her page the blooming rose, With looks that say, "Like lightning, fly!
Then eastward, like lightning, The hero-god flew, His sunny looks brightening The air he went thro'.
He took the camera from between his knees, where he had held it while he used his one hand, and he leveled it like lightning, on the old bear--and took her picture again.
Like lightning he opened the breech and shook loose the shell and kicked it out of the way--and when he closed the breech with a jerk Bat woke up.
I stood firm, and when I saw the weapon descending, like lightning I sprang aside.
The stranger turned on me like lightning, and his sinister eyes were expressive of intense rage, but I pretended not to notice his actions.
With a fierce stamp the ram retreated a few feet, and then rushed on like lightning.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like lightning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
