How to Use higher power in a Sentence

higher power

noun

• And then there is the matter of any higher power that might have an opinion on the matter.
  — Ron Lieber, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• These songs feel like sweet relief, a reminder that music is a higher power too.
  — Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
• Belief for atheists goes deeper than the question of whether there is a higher power.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• As with his classical namesake, a higher power has hindered him on his way to war.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
• The higher power setting delivers speeds up to 90 MPH, which works best for working around shrubs in the landscape and moving leaves across grass.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023
• Seeing this number often could be a sign to trust the universe, or the higher power of your choosing, and surrender to your destiny.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• Not even Loyola, which seemingly had a higher power on its side with Sister Jean.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
• Two ports have higher power consumption when used with a USB-A expansion card.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
• Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Bieber appear to be looking for guidance from a higher power.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• Enter: the packing cube, the higher power’s saving grace to compact travel.
  — Vicki Denig, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, Pence is seeking the assistance of a higher power.
  — Steve Peoples, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• Moss felt viscerally the absence of any higher power on the prison compound that morning.
  — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• The show has constantly been playing with whether or not there is something mystical or magical in the wilderness, and asks about a higher power.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2023
• This was not spooky saturnine devil worship; Solomonic magic was practiced in service to a higher power, with the aim of binding ill forces and putting them to good use.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• American’s belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79%).
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Generally, the higher power, the more suck (although there are other factors that come into play, such as level of blockage in the filter and hose size).
  — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 15 July 2023
• Not all goes as planned, as Ebony is soon locked in a battle for a higher power to rescue herself and her family from demonic possession.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2024
• The repeater takes in weak signals—even one from a clip-on radio putting out just 5 watts—and rebroadcasts those signals on a different frequency and at a higher power.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2010
• There’s a more general belief in a spiritual force of some kind, a willingness to accept the idea of a higher power at work in the material world around us.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
• In a white suit, alone on a stage before his name in lights four stories high, the singer offers a proposition, a plea, a prayer, not to a higher power but to whatever there is in human beings that might make a better world.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Laser diodes concentrate their beam over a longer distance, delivering higher power to small spots, and their light is concentrated in a band of less than 1 nm, compared to more than 10 nm for LEDs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2020
• Hooded ghosts are summoned for a ritual of sorts and a higher power forces natural disasters, fires and explosions all around them.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
• The attempt to separate the program from what is clearly Judeo-Christian thought into an ambiguous higher power is contrived.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Religion provided assurance that the world was in the hands of an infallible higher power (or powers) who promised that, if one followed the rules, things would ultimately work out for the best.
  — Ronald Inglehart, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
• The Christian ballad about a woman surrendering to a higher power in an emergency was the American Idol alum’s first number-one single.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2024
• According to a Pew Research Center survey, 97 percent of Black adults believe in a higher power, and 59 percent say religion is very important to them.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 30 July 2024
• Like most mortals appointed as a higher power, however, Halford is very much human.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 28 Feb. 2023
• Mo’Nique says that going to war with Hollywood was never an option but a mandate, a responsibility placed on her shoulders by a higher power.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Aside from their lack of belief in a higher power or powers, atheists vary widely in their answers to spiritual and existential questions.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• Believing in a higher power can help ease the blows of losing, but at times, there were some who worried that emphasizing religion too much could lead to a culture where winning is not a priority, Wilson said.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024