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like lightning

like lightning prepositional phrase: extremely fast.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Extremely fast.

Questions about like lightning

What does like lightning mean?
Like lightning means extremely fast.
What part of speech is like lightning?
Like lightning is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like lightning in the dictionary

  1. like it's going out of fashion
  2. like it's going out of style
  3. like it's nobody's business
  4. like kicking a dead whale down the beach
  5. like kicking dead whales down the beach
  6. like lightning
  7. like like
  8. like liked
  9. like likes
  10. like liking
  11. like mad

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