How to Use world power in a Sentence

world power

noun
  • The courts must block this third-world power play.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026
  • History has seen the rise and fall of many world powers.
    — Debbie Felton, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Losing to a world power in the round of 16 would be no shame.
    — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2018
  • Maybe to indulge yourself that way is going to be to slip from world power.
    — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
  • He was feared by world powers, but also revered and reviled by his own subjects.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The pact between Iran and world powers eased sanctions on Tehran.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • West Germany had always been a world power on the footballing stage.
    — SI.com, 6 May 2018
  • Over the past 50 years, China has evolved to become a world power.
    — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 7 May 2023
  • As world powers debate Gaza’s future, the show asks, what will remain of its past?
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Or the rise of the United States as the dominant world power?
    — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Sure enough, the communist world power has steadily taken more and more control in the city.
    — Stephanie Lorenzo, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • There was no denying China’s astounding rise as a world power— but at what cost?
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Tech stocks from all over the world powered up, as investors chased after anything growing quickly.
    — Stan Choe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2018
  • This is the place where world powers debate matters of weapons, war, and security.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But that would cause another trade-like rift with world powers that Washington has just made good with.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
  • But there is a moral imperative that must guide America and all world powers.
    — Harry Mazadoorian, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The two men effectively ended the war and set the stage for America’s rise as a world power.
    — Made By History, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • So the nature of war shifted just at the moment when the United States became a world power.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Aug. 2021
  • His bellicose statements were designed to get the world to see North Korea as a world power.
    — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Lebanon's top officials have expressed support for one and said that world powers need to do more to restrain Israel.
    — Maya Gebeily and James MacKenzie, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The race is on for resource extraction as world powers turn their eyes to Greenland and the rest of the Arctic.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
  • But this would likely set up a match out of the gate against a world power like Portugal, Germany or France.
    — Julian Cardillo, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026
  • Only the United Nations, with the support of the major world powers, can fulfill that role.
    — Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
  • 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
  • Mr Macron has been trying to salvage the nuclear deal signed by Iran and six world powers in 2015.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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