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.
• There is no more powerful film made in the past decade.
  — Jason Herbert, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• The urge to set down roots could be very powerful right now.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• The world of the rich and powerful, where things are mostly fine.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• The waves are shoulder high; the rides are long and powerful.
  — The Healthyish Team, Bon Appetit, 10 July 2017
• 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
• They might be forced to not take on the powerful in this country.
  — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• The smell coming from the truck’s open doors was powerful.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• The waves sometimes arrive in sets, the first few the most powerful.
  — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2021
• The richest man in the world seems determined to take on the most powerful.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Instead, the oil was spiked with a powerful street drug.
  — Author: Holbrook Mohr, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• The doughnut smell was even more powerful at that point.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Hardy’s management team is one of the most powerful in the sport.
  — Dave Doyle, MMA Junkie, 21 July 2019
• The praise was tempered by one powerful critique that cut through the hype.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2018
• Some voices are powerful enough to stop you in your tracks.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• All of this to say that the fashion meme is more powerful than ever right now.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2018
• The most powerful among these militias have links to Iran.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• But over the next few weeks, the powerful must have started calling.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
• And aren't some of our tribes more powerful than others?
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2017
• Biden is the most powerful man in the world and yet makes almost no impression.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 30 July 2021
• The more powerful the motor, the more heavy-duty work a tiller can take on.
  — Rachel Dube, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Feb. 2023
• That's a very powerful emotion that stays with you for a very, very long time.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 2 May 2024