What is "lancings"

Usage examples of "lancings".

But even through the treated glass of the windshield I could see and sense the atrocious lancings and poppings in the ruined sky.

With its scales gilded by the firelight, its pupils cored with orange brilliance, it would have been at home by Cerberus's side, an idol of pure menace guarding a portal into hell -- that was my first thought (if I can call those chill lancings of affrighted, garbled language that shot through my brain "thoughts"), that beyond the portcullis of stained and twisted teeth, deep in.