lightning conductor
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We are also about to find out what happens when the lightning conductor is removed from a building and it remains stormy.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
On internet chatrooms and in online debates, he is a ubiquitous reference point, a lightning conductor in many contemporary social and intellectual disagreements.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
Kennedy’s firsthand experience of visceral hunger in America ran as a lightning conductor through his run for the White House.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018
Wayne Rooney will always be a lightning conductor for debate and conjecture in an England context.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2014
A lightning conductor should be pointed at top, and extend some feet above the highest part of the edifice, or mast.
From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry
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