Examples of powerful in a Sentence

The country is becoming more and more powerful. powerful drugs that attack cancer cells The cash bonus provides a powerful incentive to workers. The perfume has a powerful smell. It's a very powerful movie. The dog has a powerful body. She has a powerful voice. The weapons are very powerful. The aardvark uses its powerful claws to dig for food. See More

Recent Examples on the Web The Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built for NASA, a gargantuan booster that will generate 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, enough to propel Orion crew ships into lunar orbit. — William Harwood, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2022 This is transmedia convergence at its most powerful, coherent and cohesive in design, theme and intention — a feat that challenges even behemoths like Disney and Marvel. — Gene Park, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022 Irsay starts listing famous people — rich, popular, powerful, human — who have succumbed to mental health disorders, addiction or otherwise. — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2022 Over the past year or so, however, some AI researchers have begun building and releasing powerful tools for anyone to use. — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022 Many of these applications of topological data analysis are only possible because of powerful new computational tools. — Kelsey Houston-edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022 The sense that Russia is less powerful, more distracted, and less trustworthy as an ally also seems to be seeping into a number of the former Soviet republics where Mr. Putin had hoped to spread Russia’s revived great-power influence. — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2022 While Maris was expected to talk every day by the then-powerful Baseball Writers Association of America, Judge is largely sheltered. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Sep. 2022 First, and perhaps most powerful: Hope drives action. — Rachel Goslins, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022 See More

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