How to use "powerful" in a sentence

These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest

Divided, there is little we can do - for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

I always have this powerful feeling that Danny isn't really dead

A powerful shock treatment that'll finally blow away all my lingering doubts

She saw a longing and a need in his dark eyes, a powerful wanting that was only partly sex, and she knew the same need to be loved and valued must be in her eyes for him to see.

"Something so terrible that some powerful people want to hush it up

He and Tina apparently were confronted with a powerful, lawless, dangerous organization hell-bent on keeping the secret of the Sierra tragedy

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

Self-preservation is one of the most powerful drives God gave us

This slot was one of the half-dozen most powerful in the Network's executive hierarchy

With that title, he would be one of the most powerful men in the United States, more of a force to be reckoned with than any mere Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense could hope to be.

Only once was Helene's behaviour so wild and uncontrollable that the doctor had to give her a powerful drug to calm her down

'It made me feel powerful

And looking across space, with instruments and minds more powerful than we can dream of, they see, at a distance of only 56,000,000 kilometres, a morning star of hope - our own warmer planet with its green land and grey seas, its cloudy atmosphere and its growing population.

Thick clouds of smoke or dust, which looked like little grey, moving spots through a powerful telescope on Earth, spread through the clearness of the planet's atmosphere and hid its more familiar features.

And they've taken over the capital of the most powerful country in the world

And as I looked at it, and realized that the shadows had been rolled back, and that people might still live in its streets, and that this dear city of mine might be once more alive and powerful again, I felt such emotion that I was very close to tears.