How to Use global in a Sentence

global

adjective
  • The program allows users to do global searches through all the available data.
  • English is becoming a global language.
  • That is a recipe for a disaster and enables our adversaries to surpass us on the global stage.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Nigerian women are a shining beacon of public leadership on the global stage.
    H.e. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Dr. K.y. Amoako, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The expansion of the shadow fleet highlights the dramatic changes Russia’s war has brought to the global oil market.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But China doesn’t want Russia, its most powerful partner on the global stage, to be severely weekend by the war.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Smaller developers were forced into bankruptcy and some defaulted on bonds, causing alarm in global financial markets.
    Joe McDonald, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Much of Ukraine’s sunflower-seed oil exports remain curtailed by the war, but farmers are sending out the raw seeds instead, stabilizing the global market for cooking oil.
    Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The rewiring of the global oil market has come at a price.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Seven of the top 10 global tech firms are U.S. companies; the EU boasts not one in the top 10.
    Jessica Melugin, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2023
  • Some 70% of the world’s cobalt production and over 51% of global reserves are found in DRC.
    By Conrad Onyango, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • Then Covid happened and the global supply chain shut down.
    Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Saint Laurent announced Rosé as the brand's global face in 2020.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 May 2023
  • The effort, a response to the 2008 global financial crisis, has been in the works for more than a decade.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2024
  • There’s no slowing down for Kylie who, in the early months of 2025, embarks on a global tour.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The reality for global banks is that Hong Kong is hard to replace.
    TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Record heat last year triggered a global bleaching event, marking the second in just a decade.
    Jenny Staletovich, NPR, 22 June 2024
  • The melting of glaciers is responsible for more than a fifth of global sea level rise.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
  • And because the tanker is near key shipping lanes, even global trade could be affected.
    Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • The theatrical event marked Beyoncé’s global launch of her film on the big screen.
    Jaelani Turner-Williams, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • If the plans are achieved, India would account for a quarter of global iPhone production and take further share toward the end of the decade.
    Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • For Hamilton, his arrival onto the global scene came in Melbourne in 2007.
    Amanda Davies, CNN, 5 July 2024
  • But so did his theory of a sea whose global level was stable over time.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Customers flocked to the online commerce site amid global lockdowns.
    Haleluya Hadero, oregonlive, 13 June 2023
  • Spain, the source of half the world’s olive oil supply and the global price setter, in May reported a drop in production of 48 percent compared with last year.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Kanye West’s style regression feels like a seismic shift in the global streetwear industry.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There is a massive demand for new aircraft with a rise in global travel, and this trend is not going to change anytime soon.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • What started as a short fling to ride out a global pandemic became something more.
    Alyssa Brandt, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Feig just directed and produced the Amazon film Jackpot!, a global success having stayed No. 1 worldwide on Amazon for four consecutive weeks.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
  • As global lockdowns began in 2020, sports fans surged online and Liberty Media had a chance to realize Malone’s vision.
    Chris Hawes, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024

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