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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Can Christian Pulisic — if healthy — and the young American squad defy odds again and knock off a soccer superpower in the Netherlands?
    Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Glue a metal thimble to a silver ring blank to create a superpower ring.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 22 Aug. 2022
  • At their in-person wedding welcome party for about 80 guests, with fire pits and s’mores in Pescadero, Calif., a friend read a poem about superpowers.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • A lot has happened since then to ratchet up tensions between the superpowers.
    Colleen Long and Aamer Madhani, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Hey, the big bad is actually a guy who was in Eleven’s superpower program!
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The stakes are always high at superpower summits, and this one is no exception.
    Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The comments are at odds with the government’s ambitions to turn the UK into a life-sciences superpower.
    Lisa Pham, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Don’t forget your number one superpower, Libra: the gift of gab!
    The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That’s why scientists were surprised to discover their new superpower – and did so by accident.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The Chinese government had made no secret of its interest in replacing the US as a technological superpower.
    Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024

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