POWERFUL in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for POWERFUL, such as:
1. Marija is short, but powerful in build.
2. His speech was a powerful spur to action.
3. You need a powerful saw to cut through metal.
4. The drug exerts a powerful effect on the brain.
5. Carol coaxed the powerful matrons to call on Bea.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of POWERFUL
powerful
 a.  having great power or force or potency or effect
 a.  strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  It is powerful cold down here, Ethan assented; and with lowered head he went up in his wife's wake, and followed her across the threshold of their room.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Suellen and Carreen were clay in her powerful hands and harkened respectfully to her warning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Their leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  She watched the swell of his powerful shoulders against the cloth with a fascination that was disturbing, a little frightening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Carol coaxed the powerful matrons to call on Bea.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  She had nothing to say when he bent his powerful head and experimented, "My dear, I'm sorry I'm going away from this town."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  To Hugh, the Red Swede was the most heroic and powerful person in the world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  During the second week Olaf's powerful legs were flabby.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
11  Marija is short, but powerful in build.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  She is small, while he is big and powerful; she nestles in his arms as if she would hide herself from view, and leans her head upon his shoulder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  The Indians warily retraced their steps toward the place they had left, when the scout, placing his pole against a rock, by a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the turbulent stream.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
14  But his hands were bound; and at the first movement he made, he felt the grasp of the powerful Indian who directed the band, pressing his shoulder like a vise.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
15  However revolting a proposal of such a character might prove to Cora, she retained, notwithstanding her powerful disgust, sufficient self-command to reply, without betraying the weakness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His speech was a powerful spur to action.
2  Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.
3  A more powerful version of this electric bus is currently in development.
4  Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
5  A powerful idea commissions some of its strength to him who challenges it.
6  The Greeks are still powerful players in world shipping.
7  The elephant grinds its food with/between its powerful molars.
8  The drug exerts a powerful effect on the brain.
9  But at sea the wind can build up giant, powerful waves.
10  Charles' concern for the environment sits uneasily with his collection of powerful cars.
11  Immigrants have had a powerful influence on the local culture.
12  You need a powerful saw to cut through metal.
13  Inevitably, this attempt to define the most powerful school of art since the war is going to lead to fierce arguments.
14  A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
15  Good teamwork is a powerful tool for effective management.