Carole did a lightning-quick station check on the TV.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Wind Blows]

Luckily, Toughie's also - very lightning-quick reflexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [These Roller Skating Women Get 'Down And Derby'] Reference

A lightning-quick punch caught the left side of his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiss the Girls]

Several lightning-quick kicks and punches disoriented him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

So how do you protect yourself from lightning-quick losses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lightning strikes twice? Not quite, but it's hitting homes more often.] Reference

Conan parried quickly, then made a lightning-quick riposte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Hunter]

Emma Conne! ly gave her son one of her lightning-quick looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas Lawman]

Put aside the charm, immense intelligence and lightning-quick wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Family] Reference

Her lightning-quick response, having just glanced at my report card?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justin Snider: The Transformative Power of Failure?] Reference

This time its lunge was too lightning-quick for any human thews to avoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Wanderer]

He shifted his hold, and got the lightning-quick response he had expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Defiant Agents] Reference

Where one had become immensely strong, another had become lightning-quick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Addicts] Reference

Effortlessly, without thought, he raised his elbow in a lightning-quick movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Date With Death]

The central artificial intelligence made a lightning-quick calculation and agreed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genesis]

He moves effortlessly between the flamboyant despot's lightning-quick mood changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2007] Reference

A lightning-quick mental probe behind her revealed that it was Skifagain-at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

The boy sprawled there, reaching again for what was beneath the bed, lightning-quick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

“Cuthbert Hamilton Townshend-Mahony,” replied Cuffy, lightning-quick and politely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

Monday night at Ellis Park, it was Chile's turn to feel Brazil's lightning-quick wrath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil Drills Chile to Stay Hot] Reference

Forged from 100 percent carbon laminate, the Platinum delivers lightning-quick response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Test: No-Tape HD Videocams, Killer Snowboards, Hype-Worthy Crossover Utility Vehicles] Reference

Mentally they were lightning-quick, invariably making the right decisions at difficult moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call to Arms]

As Bear Stearns neared collapse in March, J.P. Morgan agreed to buy it, in a lightning-quick deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best CEOs of 2008: Last Round] Reference

I could feel blood coursing lightning-quick through my whole body and started gasping for more air.    From Wordnik.com.  [kinaesthesia Diary Entry] Reference

Even the various lesbians around me smiled in appreciation at my lightning-quick check-out prowess.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'll tumble 4 ya] Reference

The lightning-quick raid prompting universities across Iraq to shut down until security is beefed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2006] Reference

James Forsyth made a lightning-quick movement as though he would spring at the little lawyer's throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Robin] Reference

But for the other 40 percent, this lightning-quick court action marks a surreal change in their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2009] Reference

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: Let's start, though, this hour with the lightning-quick raid into southern Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2001] Reference

Its replacement will be a lightning-quick injection of digital bits into a handheld device with an ultrasharp display.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Time To Turn The Last Page] Reference

It was supposed to be a lightning-quick Black Hawk strike, but what it turned out was a mile-and-a-half, two-mile march.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009] Reference

Muscles bunched for a lightning-quick move, eyes narrowed to mere slits as he calculated distances and fractions of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

It was supposed to be a lightning-quick Blackhawk strike, but what it turned into was about a mile and a half, two-mile march.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2009] Reference

"No matter," he said, and was faintly surprised to hear how steady his voice, how clear and lightning-quick his mind had become.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

“No matter,” he said, and was faintly surprised to hear how steady his voice, how clear and lightning-quick his mind had become.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

We'll talk about how the program changed television news and whether the show can remain relevant in today's lightning-quick media age.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2005] Reference

The late-afternoon match between David Ferrer, a lightning-quick baseliner, and Fernando Verdasco, a lefty slugger, promises a few thrills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Racket: The Scene in Flushing] Reference

One woman's glance, lightning-quick, mathematically true, and I had her photograph -- the last, the very last I ever took of poor Semantha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stage Confidences] Reference