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Reply With QuoteI would use "briefly/momentarily lit [up] by lightning".
(Note that "momentarily" has different meanings in BrE and AmE.)
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- 26-Nov-2012, 15:08 #1
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the lightning catches out of the darkness the silhouettes of houses In Russian, if I want to say that something becomes visible for a second when the lightning strikes, I would say "the lightning catches out of the darkness the silhouettes of houses and so on". How can I render that into English?
- 26-Nov-2012, 21:03 #2
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Re: the lightning catches out of the darkness the silhouettes of houses Remember - correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing make posts much easier to read.
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