How to Use world power in a Sentence

world power

noun

• Losing to a world power in the round of 16 would be no shame.
  — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2018
• Or the rise of the United States as the dominant world power?
  — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
• Over the past 50 years, China has evolved to become a world power.
  — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 7 May 2023
• The pact between Iran and world powers eased sanctions on Tehran.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• The visit is seen as the latest move by the EU to save the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
• Maybe to indulge yourself that way is going to be to slip from world power.
  — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
• In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend.
  — WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
• So the nature of war shifted just at the moment when the United States became a world power.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Aug. 2021
• West Germany had always been a world power on the footballing stage.
  — SI.com, 6 May 2018
• Mr Macron has been trying to salvage the nuclear deal signed by Iran and six world powers in 2015.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Britain at that time, though less powerful than in the heyday of the Empire, was still a major world power.
  — Nikhil Kumar, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022
• Trump campaigned on pulling the United States out of the nuclear agreement that Tehran signed with world powers in 2015.
  — Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
• Sure enough, the communist world power has steadily taken more and more control in the city.
  — Stephanie Lorenzo, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• That, helped a new nation break free from an old one and develop into a new world power.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
• Only the United Nations, with the support of the major world powers, can fulfill that role.
  — Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
• His bellicose statements were designed to get the world to see North Korea as a world power.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018
• What is needed is substantive change to the status quo, not a restoration of U.S. world power.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
• The pair were drafting what’s now known as the Atlantic Charter, an agreement between the two world powers about how the world would look after the war was won.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
• The nuclear deal, which Iran reached with the U.S. and five other world powers, caps enrichment at 3.67%.
  — Asa Fitch, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
• The term became widely used in the 1900s, when it was employed by world powers, and its borders have long been subject to debate.
  — Denise Lu, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• In addition, thereare external groups, i.e., the world powers of the era.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 6 Oct. 2019
• This is the place where world powers debate matters of weapons, war, and security.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2018
• So did art world power couple John Gruen and Jane Wilson.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
• Canada is one of the few world powers — and arguably the only Group of 7 member — North Korea hasn’t threatened to destroy.
  — Philip H. Devoe, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
• But is leaving Cuba for other world powers to court the right move for U.S. interests and the cause of democracy?
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 19 Apr. 2018
• There was no denying China’s astounding rise as a world power— but at what cost?
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• Buttigieg harped on the importance of restoring the credibility of the United States as a world power.
  — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2020
• Tech stocks from all over the world powered up, as investors chased after anything growing quickly.
  — Stan Choe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2018
• The purpose of the visit was to dial back tensions between the two world powers over a host of issues, including Taiwan and trade.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 21 June 2023
• For a time, the trial with its deliberative character and its varying verdicts was a source of American pride and a pledge that America was a different, more just, world power.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024