How to Use superpower in a Sentence

superpower

noun
  • The acid in buttermilk is the key to its superpowers in the kitchen.
    Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The pups are back on the big screen with new superpowers and a new adventure.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The first person that needs to believe in your superpower is you.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The only slippery banana on the show is the superpowers.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Yet through the support of an emerging space superpower, Russia still has plans for the moon.
    WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Explore the World of Hip-Hop Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.
    Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But if Russia, the erstwhile superpower, does lose its war in Ukraine, will that end Putin's grip on power?
    Peter Weber, The Week, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Your 'superpowers' are the strengths that distinctly set you apart.
    William Arruda, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • With a rising China, who is to say the U.S. wants to engage in—much less win—a war with another superpower?
    WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • More about Jenna Wortham Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • They’re made to help the 19-year-old feel speedy and powerful on the court—after all, the Marvel mega-fan says her ideal superpower would be super-speed.
    Amanda Lucci, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • At their in-person wedding welcome party for about 80 guests, with fire pits and s’mores in Pescadero, Calif., a friend read a poem about superpowers.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • A lot has happened since then to ratchet up tensions between the superpowers.
    Colleen Long and Aamer Madhani, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The comments are at odds with the government’s ambitions to turn the UK into a life-sciences superpower.
    Lisa Pham, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The fact is that the economic war between these two superpowers has only intensified in the past 12 months—and the stakes are only rising.
    Ram Charan, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Chaoui passed away in August 2020, yet her superpowers carry on.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The world’s lone superpower has been unable to protect one of the most important commercial arteries on Earth from a band of third-world rebels.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Both men vowed to work toward easing tensions between the two superpowers.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Ben Attia keeps these musings oblique, and, to the benefit of the film’s mystique, refuses to engage with the mechanics of Rafik’s superpower or with its source.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Acting like there is no tomorrow can be a true superpower.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That support comes in the form of superpowers (naturally).
    Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Her ability to see the pain of our human experience and not run in the other direction is a superpower.
    Liz Plosser, Women's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The issues that need to be worked out between the superpowers are thorny and complex, even as their economies seem to defy talk of decoupling to become ever more intertwined.
    Laura He, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • All of which only highlights the contradiction at the heart of the tale: For all their superpowers, the Bene Gesserit’s main purpose appears to be reproduction.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Meta’s superpower is making online spaces where billions of people like to hang out, or simply cannot avoid.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • No third power could match the capacities of either superpower in those years.
    Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Thinking on his feet in every situation that gets thrown at him is his superpower.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
  • SlimSolve holds amazing superpowers to induce weight loss in your body.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2023
  • In the show — basically a flatshare sitcom with a twist — Tyers plays 20-something Jen, who is messy, funny and the only person in the world without a superpower.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The secret superpowers of elephants, in stop motion Animals 2 hours of sleep?
    Animals, 20 Apr. 2023

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