How to Use electrical storm in a Sentence

electrical storm

noun
  • Snow during winter months and electrical storms during summer months.
    — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
  • They were installed during the summer of 1958 but have been silent since an electrical storm last year.
    — Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
  • This disrupts the whole system, resulting in a chaotic electrical storm that throws the heart into spasms.
    — Wendy Tzou, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • An electrical storm soon followed, flickering over the Paris skyline.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • In road biking, the danger is more like the risk of getting struck by lightning while running around on a mesa during an electrical storm with a tin hat on your head.
    — Daniel Duane, Outside Online, 18 May 2021
  • While the ceremony was set to take place outside, an unexpected electrical storm hit and caused it to be moved indoors.
    — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The game begins with players skydiving onto an island where they are given an ax and must look for other weapons while avoiding an electrical storm.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The fire in Zamora was started by a strike from an electrical storm on Wednesday, authorities said.
    — Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2022
  • For example, common sense would dictate that someone should not stand in a golf course fairway holding a 4—iron in the middle of an electrical storm.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • In 1977, a boy (Oakes Fegley) who has become deaf in an electrical storm seeks his father.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Only a violent electrical storm could produce such an atmospheric uproar, the bureau said, and there had been no electrical storm that day.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • Based on Robert’s estimates, the atmospheric charge resulting from a swarm of desert locusts rivals that of clouds and electrical storms.
    — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Finding out that Rabanne, who’d seemed as atmospheric as an electrical storm, had been a human being who actually walked the earth, came as a shock.
    — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Normally, such an ion channel would be invisible—but if there happens to be an electrical storm underway, the channel would offer a conduit for lightning.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • But now, 28 years later, newer methods are reviving the possibility that music can be the calm that prevents the brain’s electrical storm.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Though the ceremony was originally supposed to take place outside, it was moved inside after an unexpected electrical storm hit.
    — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Doctors at a local hospital were unable to quell her brain's electrical storm with powerful antiseizure medications.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The bolt from an electrical storm hit the 45-meter high carbon mast of the eight-time line honors winner, which was ashore in a cradle at Woolwich dock undergoing pre-race checks.
    — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 28 Dec. 2017
  • After a busy day of engagements in Lahore, the royal couple were traveling back to Islamabad on a jet when a terrifying electrical storm hit.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Original Cuisine Sichuan cuisine may best be known as a raging electrical storm, widely beloved for its explosive and incendiary nature.
    — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • There is a violent electrical storm as the pair trudge along the shore, but the Kid’s presence and purpose remain unilluminated as Bobby asks all the wrong questions about life, death, and guilt.
    — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Hannah acknowledged guests' frustrations when the park shuts down to wait out an electrical storm; rides and attractions close for 30 minutes after each lightning strike within 10 miles.
    — Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
  • In a different motion piece, Wu simulated an electrical storm in Goblin Valley, Utah, but with perfectly straight strikes of light rather than the jagged bursts of lightning.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Late Monday, and early Tuesday, torrents of rain finally fell in Washington, amid the flickering lightning of a summertime electrical storm.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • The British series concerns a group of juvenile delinquents (chavs, really) who are accidentally imbued with incredible powers after getting caught in an electrical storm.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Kickoff in the pre-World Cup friendly at Chase Stadium, scheduled for 8pm ET, was postponed by 36 minutes after torrential rain and an electrical storm prevented the players from taking to the field for their usual pre-game warm up.
    — Dan Kilpatrick, New York Times, 3 June 2026

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