How to Use great power in a Sentence

great power

noun
  • There is great power in the pause.
    — Jennifer Best, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But with great power comes great…heat!
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Raleigh has emerged as one of the game’s great power hitters.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But with great power comes great fragility.
    — Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There’s great power in being alone.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Our atomic bomb is the power to say no to the great powers.
    — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Our atomic bomb is the power to say no to the great powers.
    — CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • There can be great power in putting a name and a face to injustice.
    — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Salikhov throws a few leg kicks with great power behind them.
    — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Words have great power, not only to change our minds but also to change our mood.
    — Andreea Vanacker, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But with great power comes great potential for harm.
    — J. Xavier Prochaska, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • And with great power comes great scrutiny – not least at the hands of the tabloid press.
    — Amanda Davies, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The Grand Vizier had great power over the troops of the Khan.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • There is great power in ignoring the cheap shots that do not matter.
    — Mike Sill, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • China harbors to become a great power, and the past three weeks have shown why.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In this view, great powers ought to be able to intervene in their own backyards.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a great power in doing this, but also a great danger.
    — Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The fortune of war has brought China for the first time abreast of the great powers.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • There are certain habits of behavior that all great powers share.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • Here clearly was a man of force, vision, great power and endurance.
    — David A. Andelman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The great powers paid lip service to their right to return but did little to help bring it about.
    — Nathan Thrall, Time, 14 May 2018
  • That would give the police greater powers to restrict their movement.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • In other words, great powers matter.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • What would a great power cyber crisis in East Asia look like?
    — Benjamin Jensen, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Russia needs something to remind the world of its great power—now more than ever.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That prompted Ren to go into a long discourse on the rise and fall of great powers.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The term benevolent great power is an oxymoron.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • Many other great powers have fallen into this same trap – and at times in the same countries.
    — Will Walldorf, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There's going to be a big clash of the great powers eventually.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • When neither great power embraces free trade, the rest of the world will simply go elsewhere.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026

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