How to Use potency in a Sentence

potency

noun

• The potency of her words changed many minds in the audience that night.
• Any vitamin of high potency should only be taken in the proper dosage.
• The punch line remains the same, but its potency has changed.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2022
• The higher the potency, the more CBD your cat will receive per dose.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• Newton's play, and the potency of it, has been in a steady decline.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• Need any more proof of Jake Paul’s potency in the boxing world?
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• In other words, cursing all the time zaps the words of their potency.
  — Stacey Colino, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
• Sanders' campaign will test the potency of the Trump brand in 2022 elections.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2021
• Sesame oil comes in a range of hues, potencies and uses.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• But the numbers do not paint a true picture of his threat and potency.
  — Max Mathews, New York Times, 9 July 2025
• After five straight seasons of the Dodgers leading the league in scoring, the team’s potency at the plate is in doubt.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The more pessimistic Democrats pointed to the potency of those attacks to sound the alarm that the damage may have been done.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• Start with a low-potency pill and increase the dose as needed.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• There is potency in all the feelings that have been showing up at my door.
  — Lisa Richardson, Longreads, 8 Apr. 2020
• There was also no record of the potency of the cannabis products used and whether they were smoked or eaten.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
• The higher the potency, the more powerful the effects will be.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2022
• The opening weekend allowed one main thing to jump out: the potency of the power play.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2021
• If anything, the threat of Omicron is a reminder of the potency of first doses.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2021
• If anything, the Dolphins grew more confident in the potency of their blitzes as the game went on.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• In many, the vaccines do seem to maintain their potency.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 27 Apr. 2021
• At one point, Aniello asked Smart to do a take with her eyes not lowered, to add some of her potency back.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• Higher dosage and higher potency of the statin may have more of an effect.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 July 2023
• Sealed in a cool, dark place, whole spices last 2 to 3 years, while ground spices begin to lose their potency within a year or two.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2024
• That’s because the percentage of sales doesn’t take the potency and dose of the pills into account.
  — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2019
• His team had tested two virus strains that emerged in India around the same time, and only one showed a drop in potency.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 30 Aug. 2021
• Shade has seen enough of Mountain Brook’s defense on video to know its potency.
  — al, 26 Nov. 2020
• The idea that the word might lose its potency as an insult over time gives me a lot of reassurance.
  — Rose Stokes, refinery29.com, 26 Dec. 2021
• Sad bangers aren’t a new phenomenon — but the old ones have a new potency.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Then Freud makes one of the sly rhetorical turns by which his work is marked and that give it its special potency.
  — Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• The big question, to this point, is how much Ohtani’s return to pitching has impacted his potency with the bat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025