Example sentences for: all-powerful

How can you use “all-powerful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Aug. 17 earthquake "sent tremors rippling through Turkey's political and social world, triggering a backlash against the traditional Turkish faith in an all-powerful state," reported Toronto's Globe and Mail . Although it is unlikely that the current government will be brought down by the crisis, the paper says it could lead to "the grassroots development of Turkey's fragile democracy.

  • I don't know which is more depressing: the fact that some people's faith is so weak they seek scientific approval of their beliefs, or the fact that they believe a supposedly all-knowing, all-powerful God would choose to reveal himself through some inconsequential abnormality.

  • A centralized, all-powerful state didn’t please all Cubans.

  • In an age when national power inheres less and less frequently--or, at any rate, less and less legitimately--in the hands of an all-powerful individual, the adoption of a symbolic personal name by way of an aggrandizing personal epithet has sadly fallen out of favor.

  • In Mobutu's native Lingala language, according to one group of press reports, the name means "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake."


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