foudre in English:

Lightning precedes thunder.

The thunderstorm produced a lot of lightning.

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Lightning lit up the room every now and then.

It is because light travels faster than sound that we see lightning before we hear thunder.

The old man had been making white lightning for 50 years.

The little girl managed to keep silent, having been terrified by the lightning.

Life is but a flash of lightning and beauty lasts only a day! Think of the skulls of the dead that all are alike.

Kyoko, startled by the lightning, clung onto me.

It's also scary when the lightning strikes across the sky, but what's really scary is the sound. Once, my house was struck by lightning and since then I've become even more scared.

I expect you've chanted "kuwabara kuwabara" after a lightning flash, or have seen somebody do so.

Done! says the angel, and disappears in a cloud of smoke and a bolt of lightning.

She lay awake, listening to the thunder andlightning.

A lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Stand under a tree in a storm because of lightning

They say the gods smite evil with thunderbolts.