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Example sentences for "more powerful"

  • They likewise consider the currents as more powerful the nearer they are to their respective poles, and state that the positive current is superior in power to the negative current[A].

  • A small platina wire could not be ignited by this induced current; but there seems every reason to believe that the effect would be obtained by using a stronger original current or a more powerful arrangement of helices.

  • They were rough times those, when men ploughed with their fire-arms slung at their backs, and when the village cattle, while grazing, had to be guarded by parties of matchlock men against the raids of more powerful neighbours.

  • He replied, "The wind is more powerful than I: he drives me into any quarter of the heaven he pleases.

  • Then the sun answered, "The cloud is more powerful than I, he obscures me in a moment.

  • The first party being thus repulsed, Maharbal was sent with a more powerful body of troops; but neither could even he sustain the sally of the cohorts.

  • Generation after generation the enemies of the church, on the other hand, have become bolder and bolder, more powerful, and more successful in their measures against the Catholic faith.

  • Example is more powerful than precept, and a recent example is more powerful than a remote one.

  • Braithwaite afterward supplied a more powerful engine to the King of Prussia, in 1832.

  • It has hitherto been customary simply to make each ship a little stronger, faster, or more powerful to resist or to make attack than was the last.

  • Fire stone, for instance, is a more powerful preparation.

  • As the lampblack, however, is extremely fine, and of a purer quality, its action on that account may be more powerful.

  • It is more powerful in its effects, and probably for this reason he recommended it.

  • May your new friend at Beiroot be more powerful than I am, and as faithful!

  • One will tell you it is superstition, indulgences, and the Lady of Loretto; yet three centuries ago, when all these influences were much more powerful, Italy was the soul of Europe.

  • Now, there is no danger in giving the devil such an occasion of temptation; since the help of the Holy Ghost, who is the Author of the perfect deed, is more powerful* than the assault of the envious devil.

  • Hence this unction is reserved to bishops, not on account of its being applied to a more worthy part of the body, but by reason of its having a more powerful effect.

  • According to its created nature Christ's body is not more powerful than His soul; yet according to its Divine power it is more powerful.

  • The pulse becomes somewhat stronger and more powerful.

  • Sodic nitrite= was found by Barth to be a more powerful poison, less than 6 mgrms.

  • Further, that which is more perfect in nature, is more powerful in action.

  • For everything can be compelled by that which is more powerful.

  • Boni xx) that "bodily pain is caused by the sense resisting a more powerful body.

  • On the other hand, no body can fall unless it be attracted, drawn by another body of a more powerful mass.

  • He, too, will have prospered by the help of more powerful machinery in his trade, for he is certain of getting an augmented profit from the capital laid out by the landlord.

  • Consequently, as the writer to Herennius says, what is positively prescribed is more powerful than a bare permission.

  • In the first place it is dangerous to prolong a contest with a more powerful enemy.

  • But in constitutions of a stronger cast, especially, in virulent disorders, they must have recourse to more powerful, though more dangerous expedients.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more powerful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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