How to Use global in a Sentence

global

adjective
  • The program allows users to do global searches through all the available data.
  • English is becoming a global language.
  • The rewiring of the global oil market has come at a price.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • So much for the best taking on the best on a global stage.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Seven of the top 10 global tech firms are U.S. companies; the EU boasts not one in the top 10.
    Jessica Melugin, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2023
  • The move rocked both the global trading system and the markets at home.
    The Hill Staff, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In May, Wiley made his début in Dakar as a global patron of the arts.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Since then, he’s had to adapt to changes in the global cacao bean market.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
  • Some 70% of the world’s cobalt production and over 51% of global reserves are found in DRC.
    By Conrad Onyango, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • Then Covid happened and the global supply chain shut down.
    Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Saint Laurent announced Rosé as the brand's global face in 2020.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 May 2023
  • The global pandemic appears to have played a huge part in this.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • To avoid tipping past the 1.5°C threshold, global emissions need to be cut by about half in the next eight years.
    Emily Barone, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The effort, a response to the 2008 global financial crisis, has been in the works for more than a decade.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2024
  • There’s no slowing down for Kylie who, in the early months of 2025, embarks on a global tour.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and filmmakers gotta make movies, even in the midst of a global pandemic.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • But amidst a global pandemic, Proulx, who is 87 years old, was stuck at home.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The global economy will still play a major role in sales.
    Gideon Kimbrell, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2023
  • In a Past Life, Maggie Rogers, like the rest of us, was thrust into a global pandemic.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 May 2022
  • The impact of higher prices for consumers has been global.
    Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • Russia’s war in Ukraine has hit global growth as high inflation spread across the globe.
    Paul Hannon, WSJ, 23 June 2022
  • Qataris hope to prove the country is ready to become a major global player.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • At a time of global instability and a lot of change here at home.
    CBS News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Another sign of anxiety about global growth was seen in the price of oil.
    Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • The reality for global banks is that Hong Kong is hard to replace.
    TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • From a global perspective, the U.S. diet is too meat-heavy.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Record heat last year triggered a global bleaching event, marking the second in just a decade.
    Jenny Staletovich, NPR, 22 June 2024
  • Nearly two centuries of local and global history lives in the pages of the paper of record.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
  • Yet despite his global fame, Memphis is where Elvis chose to stay throughout his life.
    Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Procter & Gamble plans to cut 7,000 jobs and potentially sell off some brands due to slow global sales.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 29 July 2025

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