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:

  • The combination of high-powered connections and freedom from legal restraints makes Barbour uniquely valuable to corporations involved in what economists call "rent-seeking."

  • 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.

  • Clinton's gun move, says the NYT and LAT , could keep more than one million high-powered guns out of the U.S.

  • Surprisingly, though, Fisher seems not to have recognized how important Motorola's high-powered lobbying efforts were to its success in the trade wars.


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