How to Use all-powerful in a Sentence

all-powerful

adjective
  • Most colonies were run by planters or all-powerful governors.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • We would not be governed by an all-powerful king or sovereign.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • The good news is that both the hype and fears of all-powerful AI are likely overblown.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
  • That was exactly what the founders sought to avoid, having thrown off the yoke of an all-powerful monarch.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • Despite their claims to the contrary, Big Tech is not all-powerful.
    — Theresa Payton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
  • Our parents were neither immortal nor all-powerful—that was bad enough news.
    — Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • This is a signal that the all-powerful dividend magnet would pull the stock higher.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The systems that have been built against us already have the advantage of being all-powerful.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Their collective voice was all-powerful.
    — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
  • By contrast, human beings aren’t all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good.
    — JSTOR Daily, 13 Nov. 2025
  • One of the many lessons the great poem offers is that even the bravest fighters, even those most favored by all-powerful gods, will not be saved.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • But who exactly is Knull, the all-powerful creator of the symbiotes?
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The sun was punishing us, likely for no longer worshiping it as an all-powerful deity.
    — Roberto Baldwin, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Mephisto, on the other hand, is an ancient and all-powerful demon who rules over his own dimension.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 1 July 2025
  • There was a time when all-powerful media titans showed a tin ear towards creativity.
    — Time, 28 July 2023
  • Trump likes to cast himself as an all-powerful master of the universe, a titan who can bend reality to his whims.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 May 2025
  • Let other film festivals fret about the future of the movie business and pander to the all-powerful streamers.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Whether or not God exists, the concept of God is that of an all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good being.
    — JSTOR Daily, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Not one that isn’t blocked by an all-powerful boomer who’s been perched in a corner office since the Bush administration.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Cormier plays the kind, generous, fun-loving, but all-powerful Avatar Aang.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • Now’s the time to re-learn the message that a suppressive, all-powerful government cannot control every iota of life.
    — The Know, The Denver Post, 9 July 2024
  • Remove Scuff Marks An easy remedy for scuff marks on your shoes or on your floor is the all-powerful banana peel.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The only person who seems to be able to stop the all-powerful and dangerous teen is his childhood friend and gang leader, Kaneda.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • But also, with how fast the coaching carousel spins these days, and how all-powerful star players tend to be, a team with a leader with actual cachet goes a long way.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 30 May 2024
  • Some have surely written Green off as a once-promising talent who sold his soul to the all-powerful Hollywood cash grab.
    — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Without the need to glorify all-powerful rulers, the construction of new buildings and monuments stopped.
    — Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • Texas culture is tilted in favor of the all-powerful insurance industry, not the consumer.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Could someone perhaps tap into both the darkness of being an all-powerful being in a wacky world and the relative fun of, well, that exact same thing?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Because God is infinite, all-powerful, and completely good, there is no cause, power, or life apart from God.
    — Cindy Cowen, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Or why did Schlumberger himself reference the brilliance of sun rays in his archival pieces or the all-powerful star in his old design sketches?
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024

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