Example sentences for: high-powered

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

  • Basic premise: Dying from some unspecified form of cancer, the fetching Susan Allen (Nancy Travis) quits her high-powered law career and moves home to L.A. with her precocious 11-year-old daughter, Carson.

  • The WP trots out a quotation it got earlier in the year from the head of one of the investment firms where killings took place, in which he compares day-trading to firing a high-powered rifle: "If you use it right, you will be able to hunt effectively and bring down nice buck.

  • Although Maytag has gained a lot of attention recently for its fantastic high-end Neptune washer and its high-powered CEO, it's not exactly the kind of company that makes your ears perk up.

  • "You're seeing the inevitable cashing in of politicians on the Internet," joked Downey, a former 18-year congressman from Long Island, who is now a high-powered lobbyist in town.

  • Case hired George Vradenburg, a high-powered lobbyist, to represent AOL on the Hill.


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