How to Use powerful in a Sentence

powerful

adjective
  • The dog has a powerful body.
  • The weapons are very powerful.
  • The perfume has a powerful smell.
  • She has a powerful voice.
  • It's a very powerful movie.
  • The aardvark uses its powerful claws to dig for food.
  • The country is becoming more and more powerful.
  • The cash bonus provides a powerful incentive to workers.
  • Aries March 21-April 19 Your mind is your most powerful tool!
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Its feelings will be even more powerful, its perceptions greater, and its happiness increased.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • So to achieve equality, education still continues to be one of the most powerful pathways.
    USA Today, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Thanks to a number of performance upgrades, the brand says the exclusive variant is the quickest, fastest and most powerful muscle car in the world.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The most powerful parts of the film are hearing from some of these concertgoers, whose memories remain vivid after more than 50 years.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Israel has consistently dehumanized my people and turned Gaza into a killing field with the help of its powerful friends.
    Ahmed Abu Artema, TIME, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Xi’s visit to Moscow — long touted by the Kremlin as a show of support from its most powerful friend — featured plenty of demonstrative bonhomie.
    Reuters, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • TikTok’s most powerful advocates are its devoted users, and their organizing power against any politician who threatens their favorite app.
    Anna Edgerton and Alex Barinka Bloomberg News (tns), al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Sun and the Moon tell Vishnu, one of the most powerful of the gods.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The world of the rich and powerful, where things are mostly fine.
    Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • There is no more powerful film made in the past decade.
    Jason Herbert, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The waves are shoulder high; the rides are long and powerful.
    The Healthyish Team, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
  • The urge to set down roots could be very powerful right now.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Along the coast, powerful winds led to some of the worst tidal flooding in four decades.
    CBS News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The more powerful the massage gun, the higher the stall force.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
  • The waves sometimes arrive in sets, the first few the most powerful.
    Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2021
  • The smell coming from the truck’s open doors was powerful.
    New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • They might be forced to not take on the powerful in this country.
    Sonia Moghe, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Except, of course, the street car is way more powerful than the race car, with way less grip.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 4 July 2020
  • Instead, the oil was spiked with a powerful street drug.
    Author: Holbrook Mohr, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Here are some of his most powerful images from the past 80 days.
    New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • His clout helped build the organization into a powerful force within the industry.
    Adam Tamburin, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024

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