Converse of object

• fork: His air of being on the point of shooting out forked lightning left him.

• grease: Like greased lightning, Guy set to work, and within hours the navigation bar sported a link reading Chris is Great.

• flash: There's plenty of blood, and flashing lightning as the corpse is hidden - but where?

• attract: Keep away from solitary trees as they attract lightning.

• watch: Unfortunately during the ascent we watched lightning in clouds below to the north, our summit.

• prove: Proving the lightning does strike twice, Read then dismissed Gillmor when again a defensive shot spun back into the batsman's wicket.

Converse of subject

• strike: You're more likely to be struck dead by lightning than you are to win the Lottery?

• hit: Apparently a group of cavers were hit by ground lightning in the same area a few years ago.

• kill: The number of people killed by lightning each year has varied markedly.

• destroy: This one was built in the 13th century and used to have a spire, which was destroyed by lightning in the 17th century.

Adjective modifier

• white: With a sharp crack a bolt of brilliant white lightning forked across the sky toward us.

Modifies a noun

• bolt: Do you have any idea what the small light bulbs or the ' lightning bolt ' are for?

• conductor: There are nearly always three lightning conductors sticking up at the top of the tower.

• strike: Two of them were wearing a red lightning strike on the tail which made a nice change from the usual all over gray.

• flash: An evil dark gray wall of rain with occasional lightning flashes was the lot.

• rod: Living with a lightning rod for trouble has its advantages.

• storm: You might infer " hmm, maybe lightning storm happened " .

Noun used with modifier

• ball: A recent article in the New Scientist described a fresh theory for the phenomenon of ball lightning.

• sheet: The day started with loud thunder ringing in my ears and sheet lightning flashes before by eyes.

Preposition: from

• heaven: This is not about bolts of lightning from heaven, or arbitrary punishments.