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forked lightning

noun

  1. a zigzag form of lightning Also calledchain lightning
“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

It played around him like forked lightning, and blinded him.

It has also been held to symbolize light or the god of light, of the forked lightning, and of water.

I will dart my arrows of forked lightning among your towns, and send the warring tempests of winter to devour you.

The certainty of this shot through brain and body like forked lightning and seemed to sear her flesh.

From the conception of the “dagger”, there is, of course, but a short step to that of the forked lightning.

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