How to Use power in a Sentence

power

1 of 3 noun

• The rebels rose to power several years ago.
• She is from a very wealthy family with a lot of social power.
• The new government has taken power.
• After the emperor died, power passed to his eldest son.
• A small company with only a few products has grown to become a power in the industry.
• The president was removed from power in the recent uprising.
• The company was almost destroyed in a power struggle between its two founders.
• Our state is now the region's leading economic power.
• The company abused its power, forcing workers to work overtime without pay.
• Hey, all the more power to him.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• Mitchell has a mix of speed and power.
  — Tony Jones, New York Times, 18 May 2026
• The power of the light side is strong.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
• Now the artist has all of the power and such a heavy lift.
  — Hannah Karp, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2026
• Of course there's a black power fist on the side of the car.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
• That ice storm that tore through tree limbs and power lines is so last week.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
• And that assumes the powers that be want such a world.
  — New Atlas, 4 May 2026
• This boring bird has held its power over us for way too long.
  — Andy Nesbitt, For The Win, 27 Nov. 2019
• Some states have kept judges who aren’t lawyers on the bench but reined in their power.
  — Joseph Cranney, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2019
• This is all about money and power.
  — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
• But there’s a lot of power on the side of workers these days.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Don't use power cleansers to clean your cast iron skillet.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
• But today's dish soaps just don't have that kind of power.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
• Caglianone has raw power and can still be a key force in the lineup.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 1 Sep. 2025
• Both sides hope to gain an edge in power for the next 10 years.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2021
• Keep in mind that power lines that are laying on the ground may be live.
  — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
• Keep in mind that power lines that are laying on the ground may be live.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
• Keep in mind that power lines that are laying on the ground may be live.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 2 Apr. 2026
• Keep in mind that power lines that are laying on the ground may be live.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
• Keep in mind that power lines that are laying on the ground may be live.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
• Keep in mind that power lines that are laying on the ground may be live.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Mar. 2026

power

2 of 3 verb

• He powered the ball past the goalie.
• She powered her way to the finish line.
• The running back powered through the defensive line.
• It could be used to power long-haul trucks and train and air travel.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• The kind who power through fifteen-hour work days and then train for a triathlon.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• For all these devices’ ills, no one seems ready to power them down quite yet.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 1 July 2020
• One megawatt is enough to power about 200 homes on a hot day.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 16 May 2022
• This needs a lot more chaos energy to power it past the rough spots.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2022
• The kit can also scale up to keep every room powered for days.
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
• Once the device is no longer submerged, power it off right away.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 1 Feb. 2021
• New York is well equipped to power through a crisis, or at least try.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• Power banks should power your phone or laptop, not burn your house.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
• This is not the year to dismiss your stress or force yourself to power through it.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 16 Dec. 2020
• Your muscles will have enough glycogen to power you through.
  — Laurel Leicht, Health, 21 Oct. 2025
• But the small engines that power most lawn equipment haven't made as much progress.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2021
• Light can already power robots near the skin.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Simply plug them in or power them up and take back the yard to enjoy a bug-free zone.
  — Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2020
• And yes, it’s powered by Blackwell.
  — John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• That helped power the benchmark to one of its best first-halfs in the past 20 years.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 July 2021
• The drone was powered by a blue battery pack and carried a dummy bomb.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2024
• Take a moment to decompress from the day and then power down.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 11 Sep. 2017
• Carbs are like bolts of energy that can power you through a workout.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
• But who are the men and women powering the church behind the protest?
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2018
• All vessels must be powered by the captain or crew with homemade oars.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
• That leaves many of the workers who power Branson with a tough choice.
  — Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• The data was also used to power online crime maps, so those will go dark as well.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
• James opened the quarter by powering through Porter at the rim.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
• That’s half the price of a new rickshaw powered by natural gas.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Best of all these dividends have upside, which will power our nest egg to new highs.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Winds powering through the tremendous snow dunes were letting off a sound of their own.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2018

power

3 of 3 adjective

• The car comes equipped with power windows.
• The Aztecs are the only non-power conference school among the final five.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2021
• Among current non-power teams, only Boise State has made an appearance.
  — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
• As the super-power fades and fumbles on the world stage, maybe its citizens are evolving preemptively.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
• Georgia, on the other hand, has barely more than half that point total despite facing two non-power conference teams.
  — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
• So did the creation of the CFP, when suddenly a non-power team would take a valuable spot from someone else in a bigger league.
  — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 6 July 2026
• That is especially the case with non-power conference coaches hired to lead power conference programs.
  — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Power conference teams agree, which is why many FCS and non-power conference prospects find their way rising in the college ranks.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026
• Non-power five schools receive hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $1 million from guarantee games to fund their athletic departments.
  — From Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
• This is the least attractive of six SEC games against FCS or non-power four conference teams this week.
  — Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
• The Lower lake is reserved for canoeing, non-power boating and swimming from mid-May to mid-September.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• Why does America, a super-power, celebrate such an important holiday with a turkey?
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2021
• For almost two decades, most SEC teams have played a late-season game against a non-power conference team, a respite before rivalry games or the postseason.
  — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
• Currently, only a handful of states allow securitization, while some are actively using it to transition from coal to clean-power plants.
  — Jakob Puckett, National Review, 28 May 2021
• The Broncos’ pulling up the bottom of both polls is notable for the fact no non-power conference team was ranked in either poll heading into the 2024 season.
  — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• The future looks bleak for non-power conferences and uncertain for Big East, Big 12 and ACC, too.
  — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
• For the third time in as many games Richard Pitino's Gophers found themselves being outplayed during one half at home against a non-power conference opponent this season.
  — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• The mid-power reactors will be designed to provide at least 20 kilowatt electric (kWe) during at least 3 years in orbit and at least 5 years on the lunar surface, as per the memo.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
• The Bruins, however, were confident their super-power event — the floor exercise, their final rotation — would keep alive their goal of winning a national title.
  — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
• The little things stood out during Joe Biden’s sober nine-minute Tuesday afternoon speech addressing the most serious super-power crisis of this century.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
• Arkansas plays at Memphis Any SEC team that plays a non-power conference team on the road should automatically be on upset alert.
  — Sam Sklar, Mississippi Clarion Ledger, 18 Sep. 2025
• Saturday’s ugly showings, fairly or unfairly, will weaken the public perception of non-power teams in future CFP debates and formats.
  — Matt Baker, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
• This rise occurred even as renewables met the entire net increase in global electricity generation, indicating non-power sectors like transport and industry are driving emissions.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
• To co-power community leaders and organizational partners to fundamentally transform the culture in which decision making occurs.
  — USA Today, 31 Aug. 2020
• Even a non-power near-champ like 2008 Utah wouldn’t fit, since the 2000s Mountain West had several programs with better pedigrees than pre-Cignetti Indiana.
  — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
• Seven of the top eight seeds are from the SEC, 12 of the 16 regionals are in that part of the country, and the one non-power conference school winning the right to host a regional was Southern Mississippi.
  — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
• The shifting landscape among non-power leagues will be highlighted by FCS behemoth North Dakota State joining the FBS and the Mountain West.
  — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• Since 2022, when 70 draftees came from non-power conferences, the number has dipped to 38 in 2023, 34 in 2024, 24 in 2025 and 16 this year.
  — ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
• Two of those players, wide receiver Reggie Virgil (Miami of Ohio) and safety Cole Wisniewski (North Dakota State), transferred from non-power conference schools.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026
• In basketball, the only non-power conference team in the Associated Press Top 25 is Gonzaga, which is essentially a power conference program given its pedigree and vast financial resources without the drain of football.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025