How to Use global in a Sentence

global

adjective
  • The program allows users to do global searches through all the available data.
  • English is becoming a global language.
  • The rewiring of the global oil market has come at a price.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • So much for the best taking on the best on a global stage.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Seven of the top 10 global tech firms are U.S. companies; the EU boasts not one in the top 10.
    Jessica Melugin, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2023
  • In May, Wiley made his début in Dakar as a global patron of the arts.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Some 70% of the world’s cobalt production and over 51% of global reserves are found in DRC.
    By Conrad Onyango, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • Then Covid happened and the global supply chain shut down.
    Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Saint Laurent announced Rosé as the brand's global face in 2020.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 May 2023
  • The global pandemic appears to have played a huge part in this.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • To avoid tipping past the 1.5°C threshold, global emissions need to be cut by about half in the next eight years.
    Emily Barone, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The effort, a response to the 2008 global financial crisis, has been in the works for more than a decade.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2024
  • There’s no slowing down for Kylie who, in the early months of 2025, embarks on a global tour.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But amidst a global pandemic, Proulx, who is 87 years old, was stuck at home.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The global economy will still play a major role in sales.
    Gideon Kimbrell, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Qataris hope to prove the country is ready to become a major global player.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • At a time of global instability and a lot of change here at home.
    CBS News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The reality for global banks is that Hong Kong is hard to replace.
    TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Record heat last year triggered a global bleaching event, marking the second in just a decade.
    Jenny Staletovich, NPR, 22 June 2024
  • The melting of glaciers is responsible for more than a fifth of global sea level rise.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
  • And because the tanker is near key shipping lanes, even global trade could be affected.
    Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • The theatrical event marked Beyoncé’s global launch of her film on the big screen.
    Jaelani Turner-Williams, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The team’s players have helped create a more global and outward-looking brand.
    Meron Demisse, Quartz, 9 Feb. 2023
  • If the plans are achieved, India would account for a quarter of global iPhone production and take further share toward the end of the decade.
    Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The fate of the island’s chip industry has become a global concern.
    Wayne Chang, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
  • For Hamilton, his arrival onto the global scene came in Melbourne in 2007.
    Amanda Davies, CNN, 5 July 2024
  • So, Williams chose a global theme that unifies elements of West African and Asian design.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022
  • That is a recipe for a disaster and enables our adversaries to surpass us on the global stage.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Windows 10 continues to hold a 58% share of the global desktop PC market, according to Statcounter.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The stakes are global, but the conflicts disarmingly intimate.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025

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