How to Use great power in a Sentence

great power

noun

• But like a great power chord, the reverb has been immense.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2022
• China harbors to become a great power, and the past three weeks have shown why.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Words have great power, not only to change our minds but also to change our mood.
  — Andreea Vanacker, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Spain was the great power in Europe as well as in South America.
  — Allan Massie, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
• Our small District has great power, and Congress knows it.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Here clearly was a man of force, vision, great power and endurance.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
• Spider-Man is bringing great power to the 2021 box office.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 17 Dec. 2021
• The steering is secure, the cornering is stable, and there's great power for digging out of the turns.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
• Among the younger contingent, Holtje is ready to break out as someone who brings great power and control to the game both in the circle and at the plate.
  — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2021
• Russia needs something to remind the world of its great power—now more than ever.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2023
• Vietnam is finding the center of a great power rivalry isn’t such a bad place to be.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• With the revival of great power competition on the scale of the Cold War, the ground for diplomacy has shifted.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Yanking on Britain’s colonies, Japan pulled the great power into the Pacific War.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
• There is great power in being able to touch someone or transform their day, through a simple plate of food.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
• The result is that asset managers wield great power, though investors both large and small are angling to have more of a voice.
  — Ari I. Weinberg, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• Of course, with great power usually comes a great sticker price.
  — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2021
• Putin likes to wave about his nuclear weapons as a reminder to the West (and perhaps to himself) that Russia is still a great power.
  — Nina Tannenwald, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2022
• In the upcoming show's first teaser trailer, Moiraine speaks about the great power that Aes Sedai members hold.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The world’s great powers are competing for influence in the global South.
  — Gerald F. Seib, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
• The reality is that America is still a great power — none greater — and can even be a power for good.
  — Jason Fields, The Week, 12 Apr. 2022
• The 2008 Beijing Olympics represented for many the marking of China as a great power.
  — Daniel Rechtschaffen, Quartz, 22 Aug. 2021
• This isn’t the behavior of a great power that wants better relations.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
• The formulation spoke to the resolve of a great power seeking justice.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
• Vladimir Putin is mortal, but is Russia’s great power status, too?
  — WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• The prospect of a direct war between two or more of the world’s great powers, something that has been avoided for 78 years and counting, seems more likely now than at any time since the end of the Cold War.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
• During the Cold War, the prospect of mutual destruction was a huge deterrent to any great power war.
  — Chris Blattman, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2022
• There is the term great power competition, which of course has echoes of pre-World War One, which is disconcerting.
  — CBS News, 31 Aug. 2022
• In a world in which great power politics has returned with a vengeance, and U.S. adversaries are on the march, the U.S. needs allies in rough neighborhoods.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 June 2022
• That placid scene was, briefly, a launchpad for hope that the demise of the Soviet Union would bury the threat of great power war and mark the start of lasting peace in an undivided Europe.
  — Robert Burns, ajc, 22 Jan. 2022
• But what happens when great power comes from a sentient alien symbiote with a murderous hive mind?
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024