sheet lightning
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In most very warm days in summer the thermometer stands above 70 degrees on the scale of Fahrenheit, about the centre of the county; in the summer of 1811, it stood repeatedly above 80°; and on the 25th of May, 1807, during the time when the sheet lightning of tropical regions appeared, about three in the afternoon, it stood at 92° in the shade within three miles of Moffat!"
- "It probably belongs to the class we are accustomed to call sheet lightnings, for these are by far the most frequent in an ordinary storm."
- "He was silent for a long time, redreaming the dreams that he had dreamed eight years ago, but through them all ran, as sheet-lightning through golden cloud, the light of Mrs. Hauksbee's violet eyes."
- "The occurrence of sheet lightning in a particular district did not necessarily involve that a thunderstorm was experienced there, for it frequently happened that the storm was a long way off."
- "K'iche' diviners believe that they have a kind of soul in their blood in the form of sheet lightning."