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
  • That's all a part of it and why lying is his superpower.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The first person that needs to believe in your superpower is you.
    — Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The United States is an oil superpower in its own right.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 July 2021
  • 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
  • This was, to me, the superpower of Flack: her willingness not just to take you to a feeling but to first build a place to contain it.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Yet through the support of an emerging space superpower, Russia still has plans for the moon.
    — WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The leaders of the world’s two rival superpowers have plenty to talk about.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • That has changed over the past decade with China’s emergence as a nascent superpower.
    — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • 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
  • But in June, Russia also announced plans to build a base on the moon with the world's newest superpower in space: China.
    — Kristin Fisher, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Being able to take long-form content and generate hundreds of short clips is a superpower.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • To harness this superpower: Do: Practice in an environment that mirrors the real thing.
    — Lorraine K. Lee, Contributor, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025

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