How to Use superpower in a Sentence

superpower

noun
  • The acid in buttermilk is the key to its superpowers in the kitchen.
    Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The age of drone warfare is here, and Ukraine wants to be a superpower.
    Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • The world wants to know: What kind of superpower will America be in the years to come?
    New York Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The pups are back on the big screen with new superpowers and a new adventure.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Because his superpower is to see the good in others and bring that out in them.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The first person that needs to believe in your superpower is you.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This is why now is the time to help leaders gain the superpower of compassion.
    Sanja Licina, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The only slippery banana on the show is the superpowers.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Yet through the support of an emerging space superpower, Russia still has plans for the moon.
    WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Explore the World of Hip-Hop Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.
    Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • To my grade school mind, however, the braid was a superpower that was wasted on her.
    Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Like me, Kate didn’t feel like this ability to pass was any sort of superpower.
    Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • For years, Boris Johnson’s superpower was his lack of shame.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • But if Russia, the erstwhile superpower, does lose its war in Ukraine, will that end Putin's grip on power?
    Peter Weber, The Week, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But Guyton’s superpower is more about the content of her songs than smothering the charts with hits.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The great fear in 1997 was that this savage new virus would reassort once more, and gain the superpower of easy human-to-human spread.
    Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Your 'superpowers' are the strengths that distinctly set you apart.
    William Arruda, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • With a rising China, who is to say the U.S. wants to engage in—much less win—a war with another superpower?
    WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • More about Jenna Wortham Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And demographic change has us on trend to be a superpower of color in the near future.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This is a profound shift that will mark the end of Russia as an energy superpower.
    Nikos Tsafos For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Vladimir Putin is waging a reckless war in an uncertain bid to recreate a superpower of the past.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • They’re made to help the 19-year-old feel speedy and powerful on the court—after all, the Marvel mega-fan says her ideal superpower would be super-speed.
    Amanda Lucci, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • My superpower is believing in teenagers, thanks to Colleen, who believed in me.
    Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • That tactlessness is part of her superpower, part of what allows her to be perceived as elite.
    Emma Dibdin, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Because Batman’s superpower isn’t the ability to fly, or run fast, or talk to fish.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Because there's still one superpower Morbius doesn't have: the license to green-light a sequel.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Freya, 17, said Payne’s superpower was keeping the dream of One Direction alive and the fans together.
    Variety, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Yale professor Amy Chua famously warns in her bestseller Day of Empire that the precursor to the end of a superpower lies in growing intolerance.
    Julian Issa, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This strikes me as more important than ever in 2024, after an election year in which tapping into the American capacity for collective forgetting proved to be one of Trump’s superpowers.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2024

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