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View synonyms for sheet lightning
sheet lightning
noun
- lightning appearing merely as a general illumination over a broad area, usually because the path of the flash is obscured by clouds.
sheet lightning
noun
- lightning that appears as a broad sheet, caused by the reflection of more distant lightning
sheet lightning
/ shēt /
- A broad, sheetlike illumination of a portion of a thundercloud, caused by an unseen, often internal or reflected lightning flash.
- See also heat lightningSee more at lightning
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sheet lightning1
First recorded in 1820–30
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Example Sentences
On which a shivering of eagerness, quick as winking sheet-lightning, shook Harris' right knee.
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He turned again to the judge with a smile that played like sheet lightning over his haggard face and inquired humbly.
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The white sheet lightning was still pulsing in the sky and rising, as it seemed, out of the sea, but I hardly saw it.
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Sheet-lightning flickers above the mountain crests, painting everything white for an instant.
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Across the stars was a dark veil, riven at long intervals with the copper of sheet lightning.
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