Example sentences for: powerhouse

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

  • Both teams have 1) "powerhouse" offenses; 2) heroic quarterbacks; and 3) perpetual underdog status.

  • If Wal-Mart weren't able to offer lower prices in its stores because it was barred from getting volume discounts from its suppliers, it would hardly be a powerhouse retailer.

  • But Chatterbox is at a loss to explain how anyone but a pair of formerly high-ranking newspaper executives could conceive of interviewing McPherson without grilling him about his representation of the tobacco industry, which in 1997 transformed McPherson's law firm, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, into a gaudy lobbying powerhouse (at least in terms of billable hours).

  • The powerhouse of the modern economy, it is the city’s role as a venue for peace talks, a focus for the Arab countries of the near east, and home of the Arab Council that is invaluable in these diplomatically uncertain times.

  • More than that, the comparison also gets at what may be the most interesting thing about Las Vegas, namely that it's the economic equivalent of an exporting powerhouse.


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