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
You hear of microphones being hit by lightning; and the scaffolding around the stage is basically a lightning conductor.
From BBC ● May 22, 2018
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
She returned with the head of the T.G. mast, a little of the T.G. rigging, and part of the chain of the lightning conductor, but without a single article of provision.
From Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 by Thomson, Basil
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