Inevitably it follows that intensive spraying with powerful chemicals only makes worse the problem it is designed to solve. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nimbly he would kick out with his long powerful legs and send them all sprawling in a heap. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If Gaea was that powerful, and she had an army of giants at her side, Percy didn’t see how seven demigods could stop her, especially when most of the gods were incapacitated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The medicine that doctor gave me is very powerful. But what will kill me is that smell.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they cannot do this, they must try with every effort to avoid the hatred of the most powerful group. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were pitiless, powerful avatars from another world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I knew the one I must use, if I was to rise again, more powerful than I had been when I had fallen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“What if one of the Foretellers is himself a powerful man?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Zero and infinity are two sides of the same coin—equal and opposite, yin and yang, equally powerful adversaries at either end of the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had composed a lengthy poem for the event, her “Columbian Ode,” and pestered her many powerful friends into having it placed on the day’s program. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But she exercised a powerful effect on both boys and girls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For me, Christianity was not so much a system of beliefs as it was the powerful creed of a single man: Reverend Matyolo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We learned that we wanted to be more like the noble eagle, the smart fox, and the powerful elephant. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the entrance, he tried to make the blackthorn wand levitate small stones at his feet; but his magic still seemed clumsier and less powerful than it had done before. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

American troops entrenched on the new line and repulsed two powerful German counterattacks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Pa likes you a powerful lot, sir, but if he thinks you kidnapped me he’s gonna come ripping out after us like his hair’s afire. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

To give you an idea, Henry Boyd is not a big man, but he’s powerful. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Written in powerful, sweeping, feminine handwriting: Love the blog. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Will looked up at the face of this man who had so much that he wanted even more, and found him disconcertingly smooth and calm and powerful, not in the least guilty or ashamed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peculiar thing was that even though he was having a powerful hard time talking, he didn’t sound atall like hisself. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They were also powerful to save in battle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she got up, she was struck by a powerful rush of cold air. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Sir, your kindness is greatly appreciated. Oh, I fear what this sun is going to do to my complexion. I can already feel a powerful flush coming upon me.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It is Veritaserum — a Truth Potion so powerful that three drops would have you spilling your innermost secrets for this entire class to hear,” said Snape viciously. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's the shock and anger of learning I have to leave, but something wakes up inside me, something as powerful as a searchlight, and I jump up and stamp my feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The fear is so powerful that I can’t do anything but stare straight ahead, gaze locked on the wooden post in front of me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“The most powerful piece in the game,” he announced, as he removed one of Qavo’s elephants. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And if the mission was a success, Dasch was promised a powerful position in the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“You made a mistake. Everyone does. Just do your best to make it right, that’s all. The words ‘I’m sorry’ are powerful ones.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

What does all the evidence about the powerful lure of personal communications technology add up to? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father was lying back in his chair, lazy and powerful, his eyes as fierce as his daemon’s. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because gravity holds planets in orbit and makes falling objects land with a bang, we tend to think of it as a powerful force, but it is not really. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The UDF soon blossomed into a powerful organization that united over six hundred anti-apartheid organizations — trade unions, community groups, church groups, student associations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the most powerful in history, more explosive even than Pelée. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sit-in was planned to achieve the maximum national effect and paced to build a powerful and sustainable movement capable of destroying Jim Crow. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There's something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Work on the calutrons proceeded twenty-four hours a day even while the magnet was energized, its powerful field a constant presence in the building. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Together we're going to be more powerful than any queen and favorite." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She must have been so powerful that she didn’t need to do anything to influence the waters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could be a teenager forever, in top condition, powerful, and immortal, serving my father. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A terrible, shameful image comes to me: Kamal with his delicate hands, his reassuring manner, his sibilant speech, contrasted with Scott, huge and powerful, wild, desperate. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As powerful as ACD’s computer was, however, the maestros of Project Mercury would require even more electronic horsepower for what was to come next. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was strong and stocky, not as formed as a grown man, of course, because he wasn’t much older than she was, but he’d be powerful one day. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leader moved ahead a little, trunk raised, and they could see how he propelled himself with powerful backward strokes of his lateral limbs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Brookhaven National Laboratory was conceived as a powerful regional counterweight to Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The only word I can use to describe it is powerful,” says Philippi, who came into Truman theater two years after his friends Ryan and Miletto. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I just finish baking three cherry pies, ’Lijah, and Mr. Brown tells me he been having a powerful yearning for some perch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The third supposition is, That these attractive powers are so much the more powerful in operating, by how much the nearer the body wrought upon is to their own Centers. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are always better Net access, newer software, a continuous stream of updates, a more powerful hard drive, a by now incalculable inventory of gadgets and gizmos, programs, graphics, and operating systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Psychologists have long observed that when people feel hopelessly stigmatized, a powerful coping strategy—often the only apparent route to self-esteem—is embracing one’s stigmatized identity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They also represented those forces in nature, those powerful and inevitable forces that cannot be resisted, reminding a man that sometimes he must simply endure that which cannot be changed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The powerful tail lashed backwards, wrapping itself around Shadow’s body. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They installed powerful force shields over each of them and stationed armored battalions outside the shield walls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All the other students were undisturbed because, just as Mr. Benedict had said, only minds with an unusually powerful love of truth noticed anything was happening. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the White House, President Johnson announced that he was determined to press for a powerful new voting rights law. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the left of the celestial dancer, a deep voice let out a powerful laugh. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She gripped the feathers on his back, felt the beat of his powerful black wings, felt a dizzying upward surge, and shut her eyes tight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The police had become more powerful, their methods more ruthless, their techniques more sophisticated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can count the most powerful in the land as your friends. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first question was whether the proposed machine would be powerful enough to produce mesotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I make Finnick go second because even though he’s the most powerful, he’s got his hands full with Mags. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Peeta, always so powerful and now fueled by tracker jacker insanity, gets his feet under Mitchell’s belly and launches him farther down the block. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In those days there were many who could do such things, but Selitos was the most powerful namer of anyone alive in that age. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The more troublesome offenders were tweaked with shock nanites in their blood, just powerful enough to deter any scoffing of the law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That was pretty powerful for someone who couldn't even keep a houseplant alive. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The force was so powerful it severed her aorta and she bled to death before help could arrive. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But I decide to include it because anything that can start out floating around defenseless in the ocean that size—and then defeat the odds to grow into this powerful creature—has to mean business. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, even in a crowded warren, visitors in the form of young rabbits seeking desirable dry quarters may be tolerated...and if powerful enough they may obtain and hold a place. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it would be two strategies in particular that Alice Paul made central to the NWP’s agenda, which made the campaign so powerful and ultimately so successful. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you,” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants love to be that strong, that powerful. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Chalk—red, blue, white, and green—is powerful, sending me signals. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When my mother tells the story, this is the point where she pushed herself up on her elbows, giving the midwife’s pale, sweaty face some powerful evil eye. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was a dæmon, and as Lee watched, she turned her head and delicately took a spray of pine in her powerful beak and drew it across the space like a curtain. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The divisions of the 1790s did not match up with Jefferson's categories, either, since those supporting and those opposing a more powerful national government had all been good Whigs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Long ago, a powerful sage cursed the gods, causing them to lose their immortality. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It arrived in August, a beautiful thing, powerful and yet lithe. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood walls didn’t creak; they echoed with music and laughter and powerful stories. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, could I return any of those powerful strokes I had seen Stan hit with such ease just moments ago? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once theirs had been a powerful guild, but in recent centuries the maesters of the Citadel had supplanted the alchemists almost everywhere. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Anderson has concluded that television’s lure owes its powerful appeal to two parts of attention that often compete: the top-down system and the bottom-up system. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The spirits, the manitous who lived in all things, why had they ignored her prayers, her mother’s prayers, and the powerful prayers of Nokomis? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Parallel wording is a powerful trope, but after dying and being born, being here in my place and seeing the light of day, enough is enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Freas denied the allegations, and while the case awaited trial, these two powerful lawmen were pitted against each other. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ernest and John calculated that the biological action of neutrons was as much as one hundred times more powerful than X-rays. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Duncan was an unlikely candidate to hold such a powerful job. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Aeneas would find them willing and powerful allies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if my wand was so powerful, how come Hermione was able to break it?” asked Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Wallenstein seemed an ideal benefactor and protector, a powerful man whose positions included commander of the army for Ferdinand. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rains would not come, and the powerful shaman priests and priestesses seemed to know this even as they prepared themselves that evening. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Not only was the fire’s heat burning the firefighters, it was also creating a powerful updraft that sucked flaming embers and pieces of cloth and wood into the air. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only items the commander was interested in were the wings on his back and the multiphase, water-cooled, tri-barreled blaster strapped to his hip—the most powerful production handgun under the world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. And a mightily powerful and cunning one at that!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Silence from the bear; and then he dropped the ragged bone and lifted the jar to his muzzle again, drinking the powerful spirits like water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

How strange it was to hear Dorian, son of the man who had banished and outlawed all traces of magic, talking about powerful amulets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

But then...if there are people in District 13, with powerful weapons… “Why haven’t they helped us?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure he drinks something in the morning and check his pupils. I had to give him a powerful sleeping draft.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I, meanwhile, reached out to the country’s most powerful CEOs, generating commitments to hire a significant number of veterans and military spouses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Their work had focused on aviation; after all, airplane cockpits were the place where human beings were most acutely confronted with new technologies, powerful ones that taxed our neurological limitations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortals, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He liked the name Anorak so much that he’d used it for his favorite D&D character, the powerful wizard who later appeared in many of his videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The “Vikings” kept goblets filled with something called “Viking’s Blood,” a powerful concoction of red wine and cognac. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Writing a story was a hopeless, puny enterprise when such powerful and chaotic forces were turning about her, and when all day long successive events had absorbed or transformed what had gone before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“That she is evil and powerful I know myself. Let it rest.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stare was so powerful it could have made him invincible—if he’d been naked. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two hairy and powerful hands locked around his throat. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But most people suspected that the item had actually fallen into the Sixers’ hands, along with countless other powerful artifacts. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The next moment, she found herself flipped over on her back and pinned underneath a huge, powerful, heavy thing that sent down a horrible stink. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The first was a powerful feeling of pride: I had actually done what I’d set out to do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Particle accelerators are the microscopes of the subatomic world, and the more energy you put into those particles—the more powerful the microscope—the smaller the objects you can see. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It was a powerful statement you made,” said Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The disappearance of that head start can be traced in detail, as the westward shift in powerful empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were so young and awesome, so truly powerful, if only in themselves, no matter what anybody said.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every minor spell he had cast with it so far that day had seemed less powerful than those he had produced with his phoenix wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Protocols, published in 1903, purported to be a record of a secret meeting of powerful Jews planning world domination. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Together, King and the lunch-counter movement were much more powerful than either one was alone. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The newer, more powerful pumping engines were either a mile away searching for a phantom fire, or still in their stations. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Galton must have realized the inherent limits of his pedigree project, for he soon abandoned it for a more powerful empirical approach. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of course he also had the powerful binoculars I was using. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Brackish water spurted at his hooves, but Taran guided the powerful stallion along what seemed a chain of submerged islands, never stopping even when he reached the far side of the swamp. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He seized one of Winston’s remaining front teeth between his powerful thumb and forefinger. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Granted the semblance of life by a powerful enchanter. Hugo was donated to the preserve a couple hundred years ago.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I remember him as big, but he seems more massive, more powerful than I even recall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It has powerful hydraulic pistons hooked to rudder, ailerons, and elevator, which means that if you move your hand on the stick or your feet on the rudders ever so slightly, the airplane reacts immediately. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had smooth brown skin that matched his powerful bassoon-like voice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It throws a powerful beam at least a mile. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not as powerful as a nineties R&B breakup song, but stronger than a Taylor Swift. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Poppy said, “She says you have a powerful world in there. Be strong. Keep letting it out.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everything about the car was smooth and soft and powerful, and the smell of the old man’s cologne was strong in the enclosed space. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The wind seemed too powerful now to tempt with my upright body. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

That was a relatively powerful discovery for the time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The articles were harsh but powerful, talking of a revolution with guns. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Confronting his younger brother—less vicious but powerful in his own way—was more than he’d bargained for. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘You know gods depend on mortals. The more we honour you, the more powerful you get.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He felt in his hunger a deep sense of duty, as powerful as the urge to breathe, as intimate as the beat of his heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Old Familiar rose and fell with each powerful beat of its wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But why would Anansi give such a powerful item to a nerdy black boy from Chicago? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I see my life up to New Year’s 1944 as if I were looking through a powerful magnifying glass. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

What is more powerful: the lure of the social information or the demands of the road? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Find the most powerful weapon in the universe.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a powerful lesson in oratory that Fuller would always remember. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Almost without knowing what he was doing, as though drawn by some powerful magnet, James Henry Trotter started walking slowly toward the giant peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tibbets learned the basics of how the atomic bomb would work and approximately how powerful the explosion might be. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your powerful arcana connect them to my wall," she says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They had been using those freaky necklaces they’d worn during the battle in the valley to not only absorb power from other witches but to influence the Grans through powerful and corrupted magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Nazi Party used propaganda, which was a powerful weapon, allowing them to twist the truth or outright lie to support their agenda. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In victory, the three groups officially formed the Triple Alliance, with the Mexica the most powerful leg of the tripod. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I liked him—don’t get me wrong—beautiful eyes behind the dreadful specs, and very lithe and powerful beneath the scholarly tweed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He’s the right hand of the Emperor and the second most powerful man in the Empire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Something hot and powerful slammed into her from behind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d later learn that the banker was one of the most powerful men in Serbia, was involved in currency speculation, was suspected of illegally trafficking arms, and was also supposedly promoting a Ponzi scheme. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The weapons establishments in the Soviet Union, the United States and other nations are large and powerful. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of the first to see–possibly the very first–that the power inherent in the atom could, if harnessed, make bombs powerful enough to "make this old world vanish in smoke." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ophie shook her head, unsure how she was supposed to sleep after all that had happened, but within moments a powerful drowsiness weighed her down, and she found herself yawning widely. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My fears were so powerful I couldn’t move to look at the center of the bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be in the presence of another man’s dæmon and away from his own affected Lee with a powerful throb of guilt and strange pleasure. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they came from a simple unsophisticated small-town family, both of them, quite independently of one another, developed a powerful interest in beautiful things. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wondered if demigods didn’t smell the same in Tartarus, or if the other scents here were so powerful, they masked a demigod’s aura. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A powerful corporation, he realized, would of course be able to afford this. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The smell that rose from the saucepan was so powerful and exciting that they shut the window lest anybody outside should notice it and become inquisitive. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You think we haven’t tried? The curse is more powerful than that. Every name we give it suffers the same fate as the first. Only Weep remains.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was so powerful it made the riverbank shake. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

One on one, the lowly worker was no match for the powerful restaurant owner who could fire and replace him in an instant. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In time, both visions would converge, giving rise to the most important synthesis in modern biology, and the most powerful understanding of human heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of course the emperor would be sure to care for so powerful a place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The economist Kenneth Arrow has proved a very powerful generalization which shows that something like the above situation characterizes every voting system. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred Gray had deliberately saved her for last, for her story was the most powerful. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They were powerful and puzzling and even fearsome, but also they could do pleasing things. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“My mother always says that knowledge is power. I’m just trying to make us more powerful.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s just about feeling good and powerful again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“A little. There’s an unseen river of communication that forever flows—dark and powerful. Tonight was about food and laughter, yes. But it was also about navigatin’ that river.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about that, but the heat in that boxcar was powerful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music is powerful, and music has the power to change people emotionally or alter the mood of room with just a few simple notes or beats. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Percy had been in the Atlantic, the Pacific, even the Gulf of Alaska, but this sea felt more ancient and powerful. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly, "he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he could your brother." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I try to skirt around him and continue on my way, but he puts out one powerful arm to stop me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My young, innocent mind made another powerful note: It happened in my church! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I never realized a name could be so powerful.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her father’s stories always made them sound so wise and powerful and grand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

But by aligning herself with the temperance movement, Anthony gained some new enemies—in the powerful liquor lobby, which now linked the women’s vote with a threat to their industry. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After landing in Peru he realized that his tiny force was walking into the maw of a powerful empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For example, among bands and tribes, the big-men of some are inevitably more charismatic, powerful, and skilled in reaching decisions than the big-men of others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If this enemy was too powerful for Lupa, Camp Jupiter didn’t stand a chance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There, he had erected a powerful radio transmitter, which he had used to send information to the Japanese government. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

His yearning, in a sense, was too powerful to be quenched by human contact. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowledge of the language of the white men was a powerful weapon that she could possibly use one day to her advantage. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a powerful realization about the importance of our individual lives, the impact we have on each other, and the diversity of the human family. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Actually, there was not much he could do with that powerful machine gun except load it and test-fire a few rounds. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe this lady was powerful enough to send us back. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dante just shook his head and chuckled at the nerve of the tough little guy with the powerful whip kick. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent half of my leave introducing me to the heads of powerful houses and the other half railing at me for not solidifying as many alliances as possible. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Ku Klux Klan reasserted itself as a powerful terrorist organization, committing castrations, killings, and the bombing of black homes and churches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Truman accelerated the development of the "superbomb," or hydrogen bomb, a weapon that would be one thousand times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The story goes that over the years, as we multiplied, our power diluted. As we became less powerful, we got smaller, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They are making the word local just as powerful as the word organic. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You have made me, the son of poor immigrants, rich, powerful, and respected. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It makes me feel like I’m learning a secret code or something. I don’t know. It’s powerful.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She got my bathrobe for me, and then she dried my hair with those powerful fingers of hers as gently as she might coax a nocturne from our old piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was used to this, being grabbed by men who walked around in a cloud of cologne-drenched entitlement, with the presumption that, because they were powerful and found her beautiful, they belonged together. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The preserves are protected by powerful magic. But I lend an ear to the news all the same. Rarely hurts to be cautious.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Until then, the most powerful people I’d met were the headmaster of the school and the elders in my village, and there I was sitting with the most powerful man in Kenya. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean Hemera? She is my daughter! Night is much more powerful than Day!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This time he extolled the English, filling Massasoit’s ears with tales of their cities, their great numbers, their powerful technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There Vetch for all his plain quiet ways was both a powerful wizard and a lord in his own house. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Douglas stepped out, leaving Reggie to contemplate what he would do if he were rich and powerful. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

So anyway, that testimony from those people across the hall from the kid’s apartment, that was very powerful. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was as long and powerful as that of a snake, but he had four heavy, squat legs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry may have been powerful, but High John was power personified. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Harry felt as though his body was generating waves of hatred so powerful that it seemed incredible that Snape could not feel them burning him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I look away, but the draw of his stare is powerful, and a moment later, my gaze creeps back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But his powerful arms were no match for Trout Walker's motorized boat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Over the course of twelve years, Virginia Tucker, the labs Head Computer, had ascended from a subprofessional employee to the most powerful woman at the lab. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One thing she had to admit about President Roosevelt was that he’d been a very powerful man. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

To me nembutal was a powerful and mysterious liquid, but when I asked questions about its properties I could not obtain a single intelligent answer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then with a switch of his powerful tail the golden carp disappeared into the shadowy water under the thicket. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pulsated with the love of all things alive, a powerful yearning that Sierra could taste. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When the normal participants looked at the chair, however, they used a completely different and less powerful part of the brain—the inferior temporal gyrus—which is normally reserved for objects. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“This would be a very, very powerful weapon,” he said, “which in the hands of Hitler and his crew would let them completely control the rest of the world.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes heavy with fatigue, Taran leaned forward and patted the stallion’s powerful neck. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the more powerful civil rights organizations will no doubt cover me with laurels. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn’t flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool and breeders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was tall and brown, built thin and powerful like a wide receiver. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, wild and powerful, fixed themselves beseechingly on him, as if praying to him to make it true. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m supposed to be too powerful or something. That’s why my life can burn up so easily. Iris said I would die holding this, watching it burn.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They drove south in the powerful car, while outside on the right the sagebrush plain stretched west, and the mountains rose on their left, dark and shining. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flossie swung her head to meet his, and Devine experienced a terribly powerful but undefined longing as they kissed, and he licked his own sperm from off her tongue. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next ten years, all over the world, aircraft designers competed to make early planes safer, more powerful, and more efficient. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This woman was the giver of American names, a powerful namer, though it was American names; my parents gave the Chinese names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orchestras are run by maestros, and maestros are powerful, brilliant, single-minded, highly entrenched men who run their organizations like their own private fiefdoms. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They’d whisper the powerful words, the phrases dripping in old magic, and shoot off into the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Beaver was incredibly skilled at taking down trees, but even he couldn’t keep up with Roz’s powerful chopping hands. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If it is not love that will save you this time,” said Voldemort, “you must believe that you have magic that I do not, or else a weapon more powerful than mine?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Part of what it means to have a powerful or persuasive personality, then, is that you can draw others into your own rhythms and dictate the terms of the interaction. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I turned back to loading rocket candy, I felt something I had never felt before—powerful, confident, and angry all at once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t look so scared, I might have been powerful mad for seeing him sitting in Pa’s chair. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had survived a long night; he had made a powerful statement; he had done everything he could. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Race had become, yet again, a powerful wedge, breaking up what had been a solid liberal coalition based on economic interests of the poor and the working and lower-middle classes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lawrence would provide the instrumentation and nurture the new sources of money and patronage needed to make it ever more powerful; Oppenheimer would provide the intellectual bedrock on which Lawrences machinery would stand. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then, with a powerful snap, he bit off his tongue with his own teeth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And though I will speak truth to the powerful, I seek no power myself. There are noblemen here in France, however, who may aid the cause of Denmark.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sticky felt a powerful urge to make up a lie—to protect the Whisperer. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first of the iron monsters ran up to us, only to have its eyeless collar head removed by a single powerful swing of the hammer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Some powerful personages, who were discreedy pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular ritual of my parents’ was actually a thing I loved; I’d spent many nights sitting at the kitchen table with my parents, moved to tears by a particularly powerful line of verse. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

These meetings are supposed to make me feel more powerful, and in some ways they do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they had reached the Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, they were capable of setting off a powerful charge every five minutes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Flashing sirens heralded endless emergencies, and a fleet of buses rumbled past, their doors opening and closing with a powerful hiss, throughout the night. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He turned and, with three powerful leaps, hopped out of the forest glade and into the network of Thicket tunnels. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But the powerful blasts that filled their ears meant another danger was near. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Melville explained that Vaughan was big and strong, which meant that the assassin had to have been physically powerful or helped by accomplices. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Werfel could not believe that, on top of everything else, he now had to be threatened by one of Tenebrion’s most powerful noble families on account of Spurge’s bad behavior. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was much too powerful to have been made by a human. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"You said it'll go powerful worse for us if we thrash the prince himself." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The powerful Greek community, which was the ruling class, lived in the center of the city. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Amah stared at the forceful figure, powerful even as it disappeared into shadow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Papa emitted a powerful snore and woke himself up. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

You have made me, the son of poor immigrants, rich, powerful, and respected. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no doubt Mrs. Coulter would help her look for him, and she was bound to have powerful friends who could get him back from wherever he’d disappeared to. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Superconducting Super Collider, a multibillion dollar project that was contemplated until the early 1990s, was going to be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Timbre, tempo, and dynamics are so powerful that a few adjustments here and there can change the entire learning atmosphere of a classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

‘But I have so little of any of these things! You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On a chilly evening last autumn, the powerful men of North Carolina convened to solve the colored question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His note said, May your convalescence be brief and your rejuvenation be powerful! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The fair had a powerful and lasting impact on the nation’s psyche, in ways both large and small. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Actually, theoretical physicists were about to become more powerful than Oppenheimer had ever imagined. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched its greenish, powerful beak stabbing the ground, but could not make out what it was doing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I counted the four rockets as they fired one after another, and they really felt powerful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy’s powerful advisers had forced her into exile. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Now, riding here in the powerful car with this white man who was so pleased with what he called his fate, I felt a sense of dread. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plunged away into the deep sea swell, and she grew big with Pelias and Neleus, powerful vassals, in their time, of Zeus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t value you, either, you know. She thinks she can boss you around because you’re demigods, not full-fledged gods. She doesn’t understand that you’re a powerful team.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t think something like this could happen in Washington, DC, a city full of the most powerful people in the world. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And the failure of Prohibition would provide the nation with a powerful lesson in the pitfalls of attempting to legislate morality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Even the powerful president of the University of North Carolina in neighboring Chapel Hill was not immune from these attacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Knees bent, I would swing into the slow, measured “square step,” the powerful walk into battle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt very proud that my mother committed such a powerful act upon me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seemingly, swallowing a squirrel was a bit much even for the powerful, indomitable, indoor/outdoor Ulysses 2000X. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was also an extraordinarily powerful speed player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For she remembered his words: the energy that links body and daemon is immensely powerful; and to bridge the gap between worlds needed a phenomenal burst of energy. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When he faced Arm again, his expression was again powerful and confident. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I had a powerful feeling of being in charge. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The union was meant to create a more powerful bloc, one that might grow to include Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“A painted mural is gonna be a more powerful vessel than a little chalk sketch.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

With only a small battery of ICBMs powerful enough to reach the United States, and none of them completely reliable, Khrushchev felt that he needed a much bigger bargaining chip with Kennedy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing my father s clothes made me feel powerful and strong. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had a powerful curiosity about it, but I dared not. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with him stood the great lords her brother had named the Usurper's dogs, cold-eyed Eddard Stark with his frozen heart, and the golden Lannisters, father and son, so rich, so powerful, so treacherous. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As for the boom, it had become a faraway blur, a kind of confused, powerful, contradictory dream that made some people chuckle and others wince in the retelling of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier that day, Germany’s aging president, Paul von Hindenburg, had appointed Hitler chancellor, making him the second-most powerful man in the country. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath his gentle exterior, Washington was a ruthless and jealous man who commanded a powerful network of supporters and spies, dubbed by the opposition the “Tuskegee machine.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once more he brought the collie down, this time taking a firmer grip on the throat, shaking his powerful head until the dog below him was choking and strangling. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that day, all that night they went driven by the powerful wind of magery over the great swells of ocean, eastward. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

"They're way closer. But the math doesn't work out. Even SuperSurveyor 3, which has the strongest transmitter, would need to be fourteen times more powerful—" "Seventeen times," Chuck said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabel, a tenacious reporter and mellifluous writer who returned from a long book-writing leave for this project, had composed one of the most powerful chapters in the 1993 “Children of the Shadows” series. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To become so powerful that no one will ever be able to hurt me again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed obvious to Jule now that Imogen—who had felt shallow and second-rate next to Tupperman’s intellect and masculinity—would have made herself feel stronger and more powerful than he was by betraying him. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His footsteps were not stomping, powerful ones like the emperor’s, but they too were weighted. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Only an extremely powerful magician could’ve pulled off an illusion of that size without realizing it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I listened as the inmate’s voice rose; it was powerful yet broken, amid the weeping, the sobbing, the sighing of the entire “congregation”: “All the earth and universe are God’s!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sister is rocking this clear and strong and powerful voice, while Stella’s is breathy and soft, smooth in all the right ways. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I felt the powerful pull of Sacred Sun City on my own being, but it was my sister, unscarred and loved by all, who had been chosen to go there. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"Don't be fools. You can't have both. Who wants love when one can be powerful?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The scent of godhood lies in the burdens that hover above you. Pungent and powerful stenches they are,” he said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dark, thunderous, powerful hatred rises in me as I scream and call him names. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In practice, that meant developing powerful but compact thermonuclear devices, with a high proportion of yield to weight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Allies may have used a very powerful bomb, he said, but not a real atomic bomb, not a bomb based on the fission of uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite how infrequently they’re prosecuted, high-profile hate crimes offer a powerful narrative, one that has been important in fighting prejudice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’d practiced fast getaways, fantasized he was revving a powerful engine that left a skid mark and dust behind. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sitting on Arion, she looked like a queen, powerful and beautiful, her brown hair swept over her shoulders and a wreath of icy mist around her head. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Mandela was a brave man and a powerful leader. And he made me believe that it’s possible for things to change.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I see something powerful in her eyes, powerful, but contained. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This visit, the first by an American president, led to a thaw in the years of icy hostility between two of the world’s most powerful nations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To Neal Harris, now one of Terryl’s close friends, it was a powerful example of the leather skin underneath her bubbly exterior. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It has taken us many years to become powerful enough to carry out our plan. But now, with the help of our little pet, we can.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His business interests now dominated the county, and he had become a powerful local advocate for law and order—for the protection of what he called “God-fearing souls.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Blood pushed all the way to my extremities—the heart is a powerful muscle, the strongest muscle in the body in terms of longevity. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The only way to power for women is sorcery. Medea, Calypso, now there were powerful women! And me, of course. The greatest of all.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like it. Actually, if you change one element, it becomes a pretty powerful explosive. Just needs some sort of charge.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If my skin were darker, would I look more like the magnificent, powerful woman Kareena needs for her play? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One so powerful as the great Paqo would be most offended by such a loathsome face as mine. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment, an arched outline appeared there, blazing white as though there was a powerful light behind the crack. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And already I have begun studying Arabic, which I think is going to be the most powerful spiritual language of the future. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sweet milk Madam made up? I figure it contained a sleep potion, knocked you out cold so they could spirit her away. I am dreadful, powerful sorry, but they sold her away from you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her craving for lull was powerful, but there was no more gray waiting for her now, no matter how much lull she drank. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The NACW, along with its publication Woman’s Era, the first periodical published in the United States by black women, became a powerful force in the fight for the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If the first-class citizens are the all- powerful brutal teachers, the base people are the bullies who work closely with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The statue is powerful. Something about it will help us stop the giants.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The chuckling faded with the first telegrams from London: Baring Brothers & Co., the powerful London investment house, was on the verge of closure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Your spell will rebound, destroying you and making him too powerful and you too weak. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

As Luma and Tracy got to know each other, they found they had something powerful in common. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Robbie assumed that powerful emotions in the girl were finding release. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Grube told me that he thought the kings of Kaan, never allied with Teotihuacan, may have wanted to stamp out pernicious foreign influences—xenophobia is a powerful motive in every culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You understand that Miss Nita belongs to one of the most powerful trading clans in the North?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"It was just one of many powerful experiences we shared, but it’s the one the world remembers." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You know, as a figurehead of one of the most powerful countries in the world, I do manage to keep abreast on international politics.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For generations thereafter, the Arabs recounted the legend of a boy who had turned himself into the wind, almost destroying a military camp, in defiance of the most powerful chief in the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Roosevelt was going to send a powerful message to Hitler. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Hans Ree, a Dutch grandmaster and an accomplished journalist, summed it up this way: “It is undeniable that Fischer had real enemies and that they were extremely powerful ones.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It worked poorly on a powerful being like a god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here they had put on a show, and Cameron Mackintosh, the most powerful man on Broadway, was celebrating with them, shaking their hands, telling everyone that they had been “brilliant, just brilliant!” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But now she was aware of the powerful fighter plane in the sky above her, fully armed and more than four times faster than her flimsy Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"No," my brother protested, "the Great Green Tiger is the most powerful beast of all! None can defy him!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Presidents, that Masons in distress could secretly signal to judges and other Masons in powerful positions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years of pushing up and down high hills in Montana’s thin air had made Roy a powerful rider, but Beatrice Leep was stronger. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the tillerman’s daemon, and clumsy and heavy as she looked, her flight was powerful and swift. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

So I didn’t care if Leopardon was the most powerful robot available. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But she did know that gazes were powerful things. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was magic going on here—really powerful Mist. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Weaving a protection ritual around our camp would...rearrange the natural meridians. Those who are sensitive to the lines of energy would—if they are near enough or powerful enough, they would notice.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mother’s beauty made her powerful and her power made her unflinchingly honest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in front of the monitor with my fingers on the keyboard makes me feel powerful in a way I never have before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The zango bristled with tiny bones and feathers, a comforting shape that spoke of powerful charms. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war, Riefenstahl said she initially hesitated to make the film, fearing interference from Goebbels and his powerful Ministry of Propaganda. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then in 1941, the SS sent Sargo a young German radio expert, who built powerful transmitters and radio networks that could reliably reach Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Zeno’s paradox was so powerful that the Greeks tried over and over to explain away his infinities. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“And Ramu gave me this necklace before he left. See? It’s the god Shiva, the dancing god. Ramu told me he’s very powerful.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

If it were clear enough and you had powerful enough binocs you could probably see all the way back to town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A short distance below the South Summit, as the climbers descended into thick clouds and falling snow, Pittman collapsed again and asked Fox to give her an injection of a powerful steroid called dexamethasone. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Masks appeared demoralized by the destruction of their most powerful fetish. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She lived, and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe what Javier is now is more powerful than what he remembers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Being a practiced liar doesn’t mean you have a powerful imagination. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’d listened to conversations between El Patron and the most powerful people in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of ragtag soldiers could take on the most powerful country in the world. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed, “A bit behind the times, that’s the trouble with him. He clings to matrix mechanics as the all in all, and this problem calls for more powerful mathematical tools. He’s so stubborn.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“I am the one you think is Menda,” he said in a voice both powerful and deep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seems self-evident that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would I put up with if I could win a powerful noble’s patronage? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our arsenals for fighting off bacteria are so powerful, and involve so many different defense mechanisms, that we are in more danger from them than from the invaders. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But beyond all that there was something in the air, an outpouring that seemed unusually powerful, almost desperate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This helpful advice had been followed by a single, powerful word: “Act.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“They’re poisoning him. He’s too powerful to be killed by their stings, but their poison is keeping him paralyzed. He couldn’t do anything when they came and took his people. He could only watch.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But they were suddenly the most powerful cohort in the legion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I saw then how powerful the media can be. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now you know I don’t know much about the inner workings of girl-folk — but I did realize that anything that could bring those two together had to have some pretty powerful voodoo to it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Badwa, weaving quietly between the trees, as serene and powerful as she had been the day before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I felt strong and powerful and vindicated as I kicked a blood-splattered feathery lump out of my way and headed for our nest in the corner of the barn. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You used the spell knowing that widespread use would create fires wherever it was cast if you weren’t powerful enough,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“For folks who’re supposed to be so powerful, you aren’t too bright, are you? No wonder it took you so long to track me down. ” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then it became clear that they had a powerful weapon in the zeppelin too: a machine rifle mounted on the nose of the gondola. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Merely having a bigger, faster, more powerful device for doing something is no guarantee of ready acceptance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silk settled onto a massive, powerful shape and transformed into iridescent scales. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was while the Westons were standing totally absorbed in the exploits of a powerful electro-magnet that Mrs. Weston suddenly became aware of the fact that Gloria was no longer with her. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Make it clear it was so powerful, we tuned out right afterward. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She saw a man in his late sixties, prosperous, confident, beautifully dressed, used to the very best of everything, used to moving among powerful people and whispering in important ears. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We treat it the same way old ladies at Christ Temple treat their seats—if somebody ever beat us to our booth, we’d give them a stank-eye powerful enough to smite them on the spot. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But that, the likelihood of their temporary nature, perhaps made them even more powerful in their beauty. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If the powerful scientific revolution that had swept through Europe in the eighteenth century had one legacy, it was this: the laws that ran through nature were uniform and pervasive. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t speak at first and instead cast a powerful gaze over the audience, taking in every face she could. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If it comes to fighting, what chance do you think we have? The Godslayer slew the Mesarthim, and they were far more powerful than we are.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Terryl hadn't looked at the scientific research, but it was showing that television could have a powerful impact on the relationship between parents and their children. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Also, there was the powerful, extremely pervasive scent of raccoon. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Frey took stock of his possessions: He had a sword so powerful and remarkable that it fought by itself. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

So powerful it nearly knocks me off the bicycle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He flipped on the switch without breaking stride, and the powerful beam lit the road in front of him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Flame is a wonder, and useful too; surely a gift from powerful beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bold, brave, powerful warrior that the Underlanders would tell stories about for centuries. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought about that, I realized God had given me the ability to do gymnastics in a powerful way. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once I took it in, though, the very first bite slowly grew to a powerful burn on my tongue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some dreams are so powerful they are beyond our humble ability to comprehend,” said Deydey. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sir Charles had been smooth, dishonest, and powerful, and now he was dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ghohg came to rule us from beyond. We do what he demands. He is very powerful. Also, very surprising.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A taste so powerful and necessary that stallions galloped miles and days for it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse beneath her felt powerful and wild, but he moved so smoothly that Ash found herself relaxing against her will. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Prince constructed it in the hopes of someday finding something worthy, something as dangerous and fierce and powerful as he was. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was powerful and fast, but he couldn't seem to land a blow. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I felt like I’d been slipped an overdose of a powerful sedative. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yessir, but she is strong enough to sit by the fire now and has a powerful urge to read.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But unbeknownst to just about everybody, another remarkably powerful ripple effect—this one moving in the opposite direction—had just come into play. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She speaks really fast and he talks really slowly; he’s enormous and powerful, she’s small and gentle. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll see passing your door here the buckets of eleven families and I can tell you it gets very powerful here in the warm weather, very powerful altogether. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As they watched, they saw powerful warriors of all ages and places, well matched in battle, dressed in their war gear, each man fighting his hardest. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Grandfather was the Patriarch of the clan, even more powerful than Grandmother. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible. I’m the son of Hades, and even I barely survived. Gaea’s forces overwhelmed me instantly. They’re so powerful down there...no demigod would stand a chance. I almost went insane.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The biggest and most powerful newspapers formed an explicit combine to back Allerton and undermine Harrison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And last, and to Mrs. Richardson most startling of all: a paper cutout of a birdcage, shattered, as if something very powerful inside had burst free. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jason lunged toward him, summoning the winds to lift him out of the river, but Achelous was quicker and more powerful. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His powerful tail moved in slow strokes as he slid through the water towards us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the most powerful witch in Ravenskill after the Gran. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I thought it was an excellent opportunity to influence the head of one of the most respected and powerful royal families in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Churchill came in with the equivalent of a loudhailer: delivering clumping great set pieces that occasioned Balfour’s famous taunt that his artillery was “powerful but not very mobile.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Further ahead, I spot a mane of white hair, a powerful body. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The broadcaster Georgia Penn has had a “no” from the head of the Gestapo in this region—a powerful and terrible man called Ferber, I think, the Ormaie captain’s boss. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I testify to a powerful altruism in retail-related matters and even find myself getting a bit misty-eyed over this bond that I share with Roberta. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In everyday life they are way too tiny to see; they are too small to detect even with the most powerful equipment that we could possibly manufacture in the near future. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a powerful feeling—daring the universe to end you. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Fear,” she says, “is more powerful than pain. So is there anything you’d like to say, before I inject Ms. Prior?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the most powerful man in the world, and, some said, the most ruthless and intolerant. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The smell in the room was powerful—of charred flesh, and of comfrey, mullein and plantain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In these rooms, she played the part her clients wanted to see—the powerful Grisha, serene in her knowledge. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I could feel my entire body shaking like a tender leaf in a powerful gust of wind, my relief was so great. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They have strong, powerful legs, and can leap out of very deep holes to attack their prey. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And if the icy-eyed man was powerful enough to build castles overnight and flip the world upside down, couldn’t he come for her anytime he wanted? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His nose would start dripping and be powerful troublesome because he wouldn’t have a free hand to wipe it. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Leon L. Myers — pastor of the Anaheim Christian Church and founder of the local Men’s Bible Club — turned the Ku Klux Klan into one of the most powerful organizations in town. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Then you are even more foolish than I perceived you to be,” said Mr. Curtain, and spreading his arms and legs with one powerful thrust, he ripped the sashes in two. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But while the regular officer, a fat, powerful- looking cigar chomper named Orrico, was at pains to explain the job, he was not handing me the ring of keys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then the shadows become more powerful and can do cool stuff and whatever.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was not the titan’s broad powerful shoulders supporting the bronze globe of the world and heavens that seemed so different. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“She is powerful, but not in the service of evil Yet I would not deceive or cross her,” she said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They were creating the most powerful robots and conduits the world had ever seen, things that each year were making the tools of the previous year seem slow by comparison. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Yet behind the scenes, the NSA was quietly growing more and more powerful. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

What made this retreat possible was the development of a new and powerful argument for religious faith. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then he moved to another part of the building to take over a managerial position on a key project: developing a new, more powerful booster for the space shuttle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Both of them had been sent on scholarships to schools run for the children of the powerful. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Behind, they could just discern great, powerful paws and a shaggy black body. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pooled their resources and purchased two very expensive, very powerful antimatter bombs on eBay. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

With war in the offing, however, the Navy was growing more powerful, and its demands trumped everything else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The force that carried her out was as smooth and powerful as water pouring over a weir; the particles of Dust were streaming along as if they, too, were pouring over some invisible edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A familiar example is provided by a car: the more powerful the engine, the greater the acceleration, but the heavier the car, the smaller the acceleration for the same engine. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon entering, he was physically staggered by a powerful stench emanating from John Lawrence’s mouse cages. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each of Dobzhansky’s insights was a powerful plea against the misuse of genetics and human eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of all the things I’d taken—silly trinkets I knew folks valued more than they did other human beings—it made me feel powerful. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It’s sort of like those moments when you’re thinking about something big that burned itself a powerful memory. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Grootslangs are said to be the origin of both elephants and all snakes, incredibly powerful.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the powerful humidity the powdered mix got transfigured like Lot’s poor wife who looked back at Gomorrah and got turned to a pillar of salt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed taller too, his shoulders thicker and more powerful than Jon would have thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You have a powerful spirit protecting you. It’s always there watching. It takes care of you so that nothing bad can happen. You need not be afraid.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cole never even had time to raise the knife before the bear was on him, clubbing him down with a powerful blow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When she used to see the directors of the camps she had lived in, they had seemed powerful. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His powerful neck rose above his lowered head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moment their connection was severed, they let out a scream so powerful it generated its own wind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I took that as a joking compliment, as everyone knows that ants are powerful, despite their tiny size. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mastered the two most powerful Romans of her time, and, because of a third, she was destroyed. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

So powerful did the evidence of Mangelsdorf’s tiny cobs seem that in the 1960s it buried the teosinte hypothesis, even though the latter’s champion, Beadle, had for other research won a Nobel Prize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wind had been knocked out of me, and there was a powerful throbbing in my back, as if I’d been cut in two. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Therefore, His Holiness Pope Leo has found the papacy extremely powerful. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Grindylow has very long fingers, which, though they exert a powerful grip, are easy to break. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she was relieved to feel the familiar pulse of the splendor—not as powerful as before, but present. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The work pointed him to his brother’s lab at Berkeley and David Sloan’s X-ray tube, the most powerful in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The United States' brief monopoly on the world's most powerful weapon came to a sudden, shocking end. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was powerful, chest fully twice as deep as a normal man’s, shoulders twice as broad. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This feeling was similar, except it was my intellect that was weary and expanded, languid and latently powerful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The banning of cigarettes in restaurants and bars is a powerful social incentive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Dragons are very powerful and wise and can often see into the future. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you looked at O’Brien’s powerful shoulders and his blunt- featured face, so ugly and yet so civilized, it was impossible to believe that he could be defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“At least when you’re going up against such powerful people. But you’re right. You deserved to know the truth. It’s unfair. And I’m sorry.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in these great drainpipes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did so in the flick of an eye, and from a goldfinch he became a rat, a powerful pitch-black rat with red eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is cruel. She is more powerful than anyone I have ever encountered, except for the Fairy Queen herself.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The men of the 10th Leningrad turned out to be friendly and sympathetic, and were assigned to help train the 587th in battle techniques in their challenging, powerful Pe-2 dive-bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Even though Bunderson had raised some serious doubt, Terryl felt the core science was so powerful as to overwhelm any doubts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the dagger shatters, and while I'm still staring at it in disbelief, a powerful hand grabs my shoulder and pulls me off Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As a little girl, I did not know I was a descendant of the Inca, the most powerful ancient civilization of South America. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His powerful five foot, seven inch boxer’s body had dwindled to a virtual skeleton. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He met her through a friend and the chemistry was powerful. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And besides, behind the force that Red and Samuel would lend me in a fight lay the powerful, unknown magic of Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whispers are rare, dangerous, and powerful, even among the Silvers, even in the capital. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Television turns out to be powerful because it so effectively plays the top-down and bottom-up attention systems against each other. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I can feel it deep down inside me. It’s a ticklish feeling. A powerful itch that’s located somewhere on the high side of my sphincter tube.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around his mother, on the other hand, the golden sparkles were much stronger, and the currents they moved in were more settled and powerful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The extra weight was nicely distributed; Maples was a powerful man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe far across the universe, on another planet, the indigenas are the powerful ones, the ones who go to school in burgundy uniforms; Maybe the mestizos are their servants. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A powerful steam engine had arrived at the fire and had simply removed Anderson’s hose from its water plug. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was hooked to the rail to keep himself from washing overboard, but still the huge blue-green waves that surged over the bow and poured off the sloped deck were astonishingly powerful. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He expected the bear to stop when it reached the shoreline, but the great white animal waded into the water and swam with powerful strokes out into the bay toward the open ocean. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was a miniature version of the mighty, lonely mountain I had compared to a powerful shaman the night before. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Lately, the base people in the village are whispering the name as if it is a powerful incantation. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was rich and nobly born and powerful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would take a fairly powerful transmitter, but you have plenty of those.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It felt more like the Three Fates I’d seen knitting the yarn outside the highway fruit stand: ancient, powerful, and definitely not human. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over me, and I got a good look at his boulder-size teeth and, unfortunately, a powerful whiff of his breath. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The cloud of rage that billowed forth from Scythe Curie was so powerful it was almost a visible thing, and Citra knew she had made a terrible mistake. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In that chamber was a presence...cold, heavy, and powerful. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The promise of a bacon-wrapped hot dog bite is a powerful thing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps Mai's family had an apartment with a roof- deck that housed an amateur self-constructed observatory with a shockingly powerful reflecting telescope. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And my men, for whom I am no more than a standard or a talisman, are the knights who were leaders—the rich defending their possessions, the powerful unready to let it slip. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a striking man, his face is powerful. Like you, Ishmael, he served in the war. Have you forgotten that—that he fought in the war? That he risked his life for this country?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of the discipline of projective geometry, where mathematicians look at the shadows and projections of geometric figures to uncover hidden truths even more powerful than the equivalence of parabolas and ellipses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When she was dancing, Sosie felt as powerful as any superhero. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You look powerful, like a woman who knows what she wants out of life.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was, after George Washington, the most powerful figure in the Federalist party and, his advocates would have added, the intellectual wellspring for all the political energy that Washington merely symbolized. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Luke said Kronos would use him like a stepping stone. Those were his exact words. Kronos would use Luke, and become even more powerful.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He knew that food was a powerful persuader of animals. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He must be a powerful man, I thought, not a clown at all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will managed to glance upward and saw the clouds stirring and swirling, and that gleam—something immense—growing more powerful, as if the clouds themselves were becoming luminous with energy, like plasma. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The violence drew television crews, which beamed these powerful images to a stunned nation and beyond. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Boredom in teenage boys is a powerful motivation to create chaos. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A powerful thing, like I’d have to agree to be a part of it rather than it being a part of me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Meeting a king tends to induce a temporary but powerful amnesia. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The stairs empty into a narrow hallway, and the scent of something powerful rotten hits me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The son of the most powerful man in the country. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know it then, but that face belonged to Phoebe Winterbottom, a girl who had a powerful imagination, who would become my friend, and who would have many peculiar things happen to her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In short, attention is extremely powerful and extremely limited. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Yet in this brief flash of six decades, the gene had transformed from an abstract concept in a botanical experiment to a powerful instrument of social control. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was already setting beyond the San Francisco coast, so the cranes gleamed from the powerful lights that illuminated the structures. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The jolt of a new purchase makes Mummy feel powerful, if only for a moment. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At that time, Malawi was under the control of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a powerful dictator who ruled the country for more than thirty years. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had learned through experience that delay and heartfelt remorse were powerful tools with which he could fend off creditors for months and years, sometimes forever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The incentive scheme that rules sumo is intricate and extraordinarily powerful. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I guess saying judge's office doesn't sound as powerful. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A month ago Sitting Bull had conducted a Sun Dance, the most holy and powerful of Dakota ceremonies. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

These were warheads loaded with eight to fourteen nuclear payloads, each one up to twenty-five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Raleigh’s father was a well-known and powerful lawyer in New Orleans, and Raleigh, though in the family business, had chosen to break away, at least in his appearance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some of it was beautiful, powerful—as he would put it, “fiercely intelligent.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He breaks his way into the trap more easily than I would have figured and grabs the lobster, who starts waving his powerful claws around. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s no reason to go that far. It would just be wasteful. Besides, the resin makes a powerful painkiller when properly refined. People could use the medicine ...” “... and you could use the money,” Denna said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She could see I was having a powerful hard time taking my eyes off the Preacher, so she pulled at my arm. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Ethyl was a powerful global corporation with many friends in high places. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He might look the same to outsiders—the very image of a powerful Chief of Security—but Mother knew otherwise. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The powerful arm lifts again, his sights set on me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chessmen were more powerful than Old Li’s magic herbs that cured ancestral curses. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a beautiful horse—not the winged kind, but a majestic and powerful stallion with a honey- colored coat and a black mane. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That I must use my voice, because it’s the only thing you have sometimes when someone or something is larger and more powerful than you. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Because if he didn’t fall that meant the demon was powerful and the pastor needed to come at him even harder. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Philip’s father was a man of little formal education who had become a powerful social force in Ravenel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the nest the male goshawk struck Alice’s backpack a powerful blow, nearly knocking her out of the tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The letter mentioned the possibility of “extremely powerful bombs of a new type.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was an enormously powerful man, with a neck as big as Johnny’s waist and huge hands hanging down to his knees. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, my mother decided to test this big, powerful man. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It became, arguably, the most powerful, and effective public safety advocacy group in the country. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Slowly the river shrank as the grain sprouted, grew, and covered the black with emerald; continued to shrink under the ever more powerful sun as the emerald ripened into gold. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Someone threw a Molotov cocktail into one of the mom-and-pop stores and Cissy said the firemen were probably going to use those powerful hoses on the people like they used on Dr. Martin Luther King. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Nothing, not even the enormously powerful minister of propaganda, was going to stand between her and her vision for this film. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some nearby examples, tens or hundreds of millions of light-years away, are powerful sources of X-rays, infrared radiation and radio waves, have extremely luminous cores and fluctuate in brightness on time scales of weeks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Storm clouds rose up behind her, dark and threatening, but a powerful sun peeked through, sending coppery rays through the whole drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The powerful tail whipped expertly out, slashing across the rat’s face with its poisoned metal war barb. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Alexander left his son gravely ill, with only the state of the Romagna secured and with all the others up in the air, situated between two very powerful enemy armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, so Penelope and I became the hot topic because we were defying the great and powerful Earl. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I’m being completely honest, I’ll have to admit that it does matter to me, that I’m trying very hard to change myself, but that I’m always up against a more powerful enemy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The troll was directly below her, pounding against the town’s outer wall, which was coming away in chunks beneath his powerful fingers. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t any longer a gifted, powerful minister leading a community in a struggle for social change. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now that she had been laughing, the words didn’t feel so powerful anymore. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And some really big boats like ocean liners or tankers—those would be rich or powerful people, whose lives engulfed many other lives and carried them along. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One summer in the late 1970s, long before Roy Eberhardt was born, a small but powerful tropical storm boiled out of the Gulf of Mexico and came ashore a few miles south of Coconut Cove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quick, powerful puffs of wind create brush and bush sparks, trees become mammoth flaming candles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Symbol of Shamash, the patron god of kings, and the guy who had a magical net capable of trapping all sorts of terrible evils. You're very lucky to have such a powerful gift." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Above all, I do not trust the powerful and vengeful Durufle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My father, a simple principal, was taking on the two most powerful and dangerous forces in the country. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

To achieve even a reasonably smooth and powerful stroke, they had to learn to execute a series of precisely timed and carefully coordinated moves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Leaders envisioned a powerful show of unity, a massive crowd of blacks and whites together parading through the Black Belt, crossing as one over the deadline, celebrating their common bond as laborers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Already taller than Conor’s window, the monster grew wider as it brought itself together, filling out to a powerful shape, one that looked somehow strong, somehow mighty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His uncle had powerful eyes from the blinking. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon watched with powerful curiosity until Mrs. Coulter looked at him, and he knew what she meant and turned away, averting his eyes modestly from these feminine mysteries as the golden monkey was doing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She spun and gave Rowan a powerful kick to the chest that almost took him down. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When the sensation became so powerful that Sheed thought he might be sick, it stopped and they were on the stage again. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watched powerful men count their money, and starving men count theirs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the ship rise and fall, riding a slow, powerful swell. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Falkbridge was by far the most powerful man in the Thieves Quarter. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Buried in textbooks and scientific papers, these insights would be ignored by powerful political forces that would soon embark on the most perverse forms of human genetic manipulations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count’s leap back saved him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And even if they were good, they could not be strong enough to defend you from powerful enemies and from disloyal subjects. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had helped bring about the progress and national impact such that none could call us liars when we called Mr. Muhammad the most powerful black man in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For a man who says the Lord is set to end the whole Creation at any minute, he’s got a powerful concern for the vain things of this world.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His model was England, with its national bank, regulated commerce, and powerful finance ministers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the door opened, the wave of air that it created brought in a powerful smell of cold sweat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The storm was so powerful that it lifted Edward off the ocean floor and led him in a crazy, wild and spinning dance. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

And their mouths were fastened together with a powerful greed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The blast was so powerful I knew it could only be one thing: Zeus’s master bolt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you’re risking something. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father has too many powerful patients,” James said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The council was a group of powerful politicians and businesspeople dedicated to keeping Montgomery segregated. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

This powerful gang also acted out a deadly mission to vanquish outsiders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Not that powerful, eh? Could have fooled me. You’re the son of the Earthshaker, lad. You don’t know your own strength.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Illnesses, bad luck and unemployment were caused by witchcraft, and only the timely intervention by my ancestral spirits—through a powerful witch doctor as an intermediary—could relieve anyone of such suffering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A former teacher, journalist, and dean of women at Northwestern University, Willard was both a visionary and a powerful reformer. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The military in Guatemala at that time became too powerful, and the people revolted. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, Caesar asked to meet with Ptolemy, who was furious to find Cleopatra safe inside the palace, winning over the most powerful man in the world. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Usually they went hand in hand with the powerful whites and helped to keep their groaning brothers in line, for that was the safest course of action. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did have big, powerful arms, which might have scared her had she not had the most peculiar thought: those arms would allow him to give some lucky girl excellent hugs if she wanted them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It would be the most powerful weapon ever produced. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been hoping my shooting skills might get me a six or a seven, even if I'm not particularly powerful. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The bicycle, at Nine, would be the powerful emblem of moving gradually out into the community, away from the protective family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The commentator at the scene was hit by a powerful weapon, his entire body charred. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then a second, more powerful bomb kills them as well. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A flash of lightning spidered across the sky, followed by a powerful bang of thunder. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The maiden, who was named Medea, knew how to work very powerful magic, and could undoubtedly save the Argonauts if she would use her dark knowledge for them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you, most of those human desires are there, just hidden behind more powerful desires.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She reached wildly with both her arms, standing knee-deep in the pull of powerful waves. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His strict and humble lifestyle made that story believable—after all, someone so powerful could easily have used that power to make himself extravagantly wealthy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In all of those pictures, she looked like the warrior that Ariel had wanted to be—stern and serious and powerful. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

For a lot of rail riders there is a powerful urge to keep moving. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some claimed to have seen with their own eyes this most powerful and beautiful of cats in the jungles of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a new model, with a powerful V-6 engine. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more powerful is the tingling enveloping my entire body at the Mask’s closeness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Shin remembers her as short and slightly plump with powerful arms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If the powerful people had had the good sense to leave some other people around to do the cleaning for them, from Columbus Circle down was probably clear of snow. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s not for you,” Grandma said Now that they mentioned it, I could smell something pretty powerful wafting into the kitchen. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this hugely powerful god would turn out to be helpful. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He mentioned this plateau to me, and the altar. I knew Sigurd planned to use the dragon’s blood to make himself more powerful, and...” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Not five minutes to spare even for your friends Miss Fairfax and Miss Bates? How unlucky! Miss Bates’s powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Getting information of value seems to explain some of the powerful lure of technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took all my control to face the powerful head priest at such a moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Y’all best hang on,” High John called back, and then the crow gave two powerful flaps and rose in the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A strange sense of duty, not to mention a powerful curiosity, compelled him to join. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The minister was not alone in his fight: he had a powerful ally in newspaperman Louis Austin. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the tent Mrs. Coulter was talking to a man Lena Feldt hadn’t seen before: an older man, gray-haired and powerful, with a serpent dæmon twined around his wrist. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the more powerful a demigod you became, the more you smelled like a monster’s lunch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At Permian the priority was football, which beyond the powerful memories and the wonderful joy it created year after year for the town of Odessa, rarely led to scholarships or careers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he means is that people have a powerful, even extraordinary, ability to direct their attention to control it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If anyone asked about him, my mom or Ellie would say, “He’s a powerful man, with many friends. Lots of obligations.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I never thought there was anything powerful enough to blow out a steel tube like this. Bursting pressure’s got to be in the neighborhood of twenty thousand pounds per square inch, even with the weld.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have a sense of what a leader is supposed to look like, and that stereotype is so powerful that when someone fits it, we simply become blind to other considerations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Now she was going to be the richest and most powerful as well. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the Allens were rich and powerful and white. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While I worked, I could feel a virtual tug-of-war going on between my hands and the cells’ powerful adhesive ability. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He longed for a stimulus powerful enough to focus his attention and drain off his energies. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He is so powerful he broke a silken ribbon!’ Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Big swarms of ghosts were almost impossible to stop and terribly powerful. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was only one Beta Capsule, and it was a far more powerful weapon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And the magic she used to do so was strong, since it was the wizard’s own magic, ancient and powerful, and he could not undo it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His neck was thick, powerful, and cruelly muscled; his arms were long, athletic to the point of being simian, threaded with veins, and covered with reddish hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How like a royal court,” I muse, “where powerful lords and councillors direct the king's course.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

These paintings are currently in a number of big and powerful museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My, that certainly is a powerful smell,” he said, walking over to us. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I’m going there, except he’s the most powerful person I know. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our Lady became so powerful,” said August, “that the master was forced to put her under house arrest, to chain her in the carriage house. She was cast down and bound up.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be like trying not to scratch the most powerful itch anyone had ever known. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

So, too, our personal communications can, if out of control, turn a powerful survival tool into one that works against us. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The powerful current would quickly knock him off his feet and carry him away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The performance in Nebraska is, without a doubt, even more powerful than those that came before. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is surely part of the explanation for why Paul Revere’s message was so powerful on the night of his midnight ride. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, anger at Dumbledore crashed over him again, powerful as the waves slamming themselves against the cliff beneath the cottage, anger that Dumbledore had not explained before he died. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Because you wouldn’t rule it for long. The haint infesting you would grow too powerful for even you to contend with, and he’d destroy you. But there’s another way.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Some of our most powerful sources are radar transmitters; a few are used for radar astronomy, to probe with radio fingers the surfaces of the nearby planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not even he had imagined just how powerful the eruption would be. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the song made me feel powerful, and I even started to daydream about signing up for the concert and finally getting the chance to surprise everyone with my secret. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There is a powerful random character to the evolutionary process. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world's experts in decrypting Enigma, the British had created banks of powerful electric machines—called bombes—to help with the work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But Nicole had found it powerful; it had made her angry and afraid in equal measure. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This has to stop before they get too powerful.’ Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The first was small but powerful enough to break a person’s leg. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I’d never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Ants are quite powerful, actually, relative to their size.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, Jesse and many geeks consider themselves liberators of ideas and culture, using the Net to literally pry them from what they see as greedy corporations and powerful, censorious institutions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if it’s powerful, wouldn’t it be big?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We become, therefore, a mongrel unit of one under a single all powerful government... and we stand for everything ... and for nothing.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to have sat across from her when Fats Waller, tinkling the keys of the piano seductively with his thick, powerful fingers, rolled his big eyes at her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thus started the engine again and was partially reassured to find that the smell seemed not as powerful as before. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s exciting and powerful, but you couldn’t call it tuneful, or a laugh a minute. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They've split into two groups at the sides of the horn and are using those powerful hindquarters to launch themselves at us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The reason is that, as we saw as part of ‘musical gravity’ in the last chapter, these three harmonic centres are the most inherently powerful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Be defiant. It will make your eventual surrender that much more powerful.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

General O’Duffy is forming an Irish Brigade that will soon sail off to Spain to fight with that great Catholic Generalissimo Franco himself, and Mr. Griffin would be a powerful addition to the Brigade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

What if we stopped scanning the horizon with our binoculars and began instead examining our own decision making and behavior through the most powerful of microscopes? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They sent out colonies, had dealings with the less powerful without increasing their strength, put down the powerful, and did not allow powerful foreigners to gain prestige there. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I look like I have experienced something powerful. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As he carved, he thought about the eagles he had seen and why they were such proud and powerful hunters. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With his powerful legs, the robot launched himself up through the air, soaring in a high, graceful arc over the pond and down to the other side. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Archaeological evidence suggests that the Inka gradually became more powerful. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their boots sank into the ooze, which produced a powerful downward suction, and with each step they would have to pull up hard to break the hold. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any idea how powerful that was?” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was not merely adroit and not merely powerful, he was faithless. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she descended into the waiting arms of three powerful Executives, all of them grinning with vengeful excitement. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For young children, the rhyme is magical as they first encounter the powerful sound of rhyming words. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He used the most powerful pull there was for a thirteen-year-old boy living in Odessa, really the only one that gave a kid something to dream about— the power of Permian football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was simultaneously leading to tools that would make humans so much more powerful, and at the same time, it was making humans seem less powerful, certainly slower, than they’d ever been. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The ink was permanent, set with the light from a powerful Gold orb owned by the Governor's office. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The plan was based on the belief that Admiral François de Grasse’s powerful French fleet, with 3,000 troops, was heading from France to New York to aid in the attack. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cherokee confederacy was thus formed not by conquest but by the amalgamation of previously jealous smaller entities, which merged only when threatened with destruction by powerful external forces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

True, the lengths to which powerful corporations have been willing to go to protect their profits highlights an unbroken trail of shame running through our nation's history. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But in the end, Professor Steinberg had written such a powerful letter of recommendation that there was little left for me to do. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He began striding up and down again, praying and prophesying, with his words sometimes shifting to an unknown, yet strangely powerful, tongue. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a powerful, dark-faced man, and now that she could see him in daylight Lyra saw a sad grimness in his expression. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had been using a powerful protection spell on himself so the Nightbeast couldn’t eat him, and it had taken all his energy. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His long, powerful arms swung tense and awkward. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What was it that made the ragtag little Confederate Army the last of its kind? What made it so weak, but so powerful it worked miracles?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His powerful front legs were churning the water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the union could bring all workers together, it would be a powerful force to contend with. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They recycle organic matter with powerful enzymes that can break down organic molecules into simple molecules and minerals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The pack was powerful when they depended on each other. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He turned and went “Woof! Woof!” but not doglike—it was tigerlike: powerful, scary and utterly suited to the situation. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As such, Dr. Gazzaley thinks the concept of distraction provides a powerful lens through which to view the science of attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not like there is something so powerful inside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Speakers at TED conferences give short, powerful talks. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A visceral urge to flee sweeps through me, so powerful that I slow, stop, pull away from the slaver. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If you were unlucky enough to be in the same sector when it went off, you were a goner, regardless of how powerful or well protected you were. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When everyone left, the quiet got real powerful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were no lean, mean, powerful broncos, only a half-dozen pint-sized Shetland ponies, two of which, Orangutan and Sunflower, belonged to Charley and Linda Bloom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting there, slowly, and maybe not entirely surely, but there was something almost delicious about feeling the same powerful swell of abilities that had once terrorized me corked and controlled. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Seven couldn’t think of any spell strong enough to make that happen, but then again, she didn’t know every powerful spell. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She understands immediately, the way he’s trying to replay the moment they had, where they were having fun, where he felt powerful, because she wanted him and he was all casual about it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was sitting very straight in his chair, his powerful chest swelling and quivering as though he were standing up to the assault of a wave. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I urged that our first offering should be a bill of three one-act plays, including Paul Green’s Hymn to the Rising Sun, a grim, poetical, powerful one-acter dealing with chain gang conditions in the South. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All that exercise has given me a powerful thirst,” said a man, tossing his burning branch into the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Earth rotates, our more powerful radio transmitters slowly sweep the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a powerful point, made in an offhand way, but it hit Reggie hard. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Despite a clear and pressing need, subsidized housing wasn’t considered, primarily because it ran counter to the economic interests of slumlords who held powerful positions in and out of government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A countercharm so powerful that it was able to repel the spell of death. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The booming voice belonged to a powerful man with dark hair and broad shoulders who sat upon an elegant brown horse. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

This discovery—called regression to the mean—would have a powerful effect on the science of measurement and the concept of variance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

This was a large red-gold Labrador retriever, a young dog with all the heritage of his sturdy working forebears in his powerful build, broad noble head and deep, blunt, gentle mouth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“El Patron didn’t want it to happen to you. He’s powerful enough to break the law.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that the train was gone, there was a powerful silence that settled along the tracks in the moments before the songbirds picked up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older, more powerful ones are membranous, packed with layers of different meaning, like one-word poems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie did not fully understand how the dead worked, but she knew that a ghost that powerful and angry could hurt those around them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In a commensal tradition, where food is precious, the powerful older people made wrongdoers eat alone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boat with both a very high stroke rate and very powerful strokes will beat a boat that can’t match it on both counts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it’s a question of being too powerful.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her terror of what awaited her just over the threshold of consciousness was more powerful still. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The doctors had diagnosed her with a serious chest infection, but the good news had been that it could be cleared up with a series of powerful medications. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

After traveling some distance south, he beached the canoe on a sandbar far from shore to observe the powerful tides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Books that were not of God were banished; they were a danger, powerful and irresistible in their cunning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Calling on a powerful witch doctor, he asked him to provide charms that would be sure to attract a handsome man to the house. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Sister Ibinabo was powerful, and because she pretended to wear her power lightly, it only made her more so. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Black South Africans realized that the ANC was no longer an organization of passive resistance, but a powerful spear that would take the struggle to the heart of white power. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Especially the library. Knowledge is powerful, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden. Today, knowledge is for everyone.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The powerful high beams picked up sprays of broken glass in the street, as well as nails, shards of metal, old hubcaps, tin cans, a flattened pair of men’s underpants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once or twice the boy’s mother said to the boy, “He’s powerful proud of your learnin’. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall and powerful and able to move across the entire board in one move. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The other was Marion Allen, the son of one of the most powerful men in the city—something Marion made sure everyone knew. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The firm was a powerful partner for me that helped me develop my platform as an athlete activist. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I heard the snap of his powerful jaws as they closed on the throat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, the state was far more powerful than we, and any attempts at violence by us would be devastatingly crushed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The powerful stench of Paradise Vendors, Incorporated, sometimes led the overwhelmed and perplexed stroller to glance through the open door into the darkness of the garage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was saved by a jockey riding alongside him, George Taniguchi, who was so powerful that he was able to catch Longden with one hand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary prudence would have reminded him that it was dangerous to side against Apollo with Pan, infinitely the less powerful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buried in the text of that review was the most powerful argument against pangenesis that Darwin would encounter in his lifetime. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Here is a powerful white man, I thought as I listened, the leader of our nation, standing up for the rights of my people! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

However, zero is too powerful even for nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was powerful, lean, and lived surrounded by ferocious animals more wolf than dog and fiercely devoted to her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And they gave me the art of journalism, a powerful technology for seekers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Iorek Byrnison was pacing swiftly, moving both legs on one side of his body at the same time, and rocking from side to side in a steady powerful rhythm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t understand what that must’ve been like, but she knew how powerful names were. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Gone, because Baachan’s hands were somehow more powerful than her own. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And no matter how much Ivory tried to hate it and belittle it and scoff at it, something took hold of him on game day as surely powerful as spreading the word of Jesus. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their present form these bombs are now in production, and even more powerful forms are in development. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She considered her address to have been persuasive and powerful—“a great event” in her life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In all six respects, the maker of the Phaistos disk had access to much less powerful technologies to combine into a printing system than did Gutenberg. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was the most powerful lion that the woman had ever seen, and she wailed in fright at the sight of his great shoulders and the shock of golden mane that framed his face. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be the powerful one—the one who called the shots. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Langley was one of the United States’ most powerful offensive weapons—a secret weapon, or nearly secret, hidden in plain sight in a small southern town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he stabbed the bear, its powerful jaws clamped harder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But then with a piercing shriek that rent the evening air, the powerful locomotive set its brakes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The magic I evoked fifteen years ago means that Harry has powerful protection while he can still call this house ‘home.’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The storm troopers were too powerful, with a force of nearly three million men. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

From up here, on the deck of this incredible ship, George felt powerful. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a powerful combination for a man who has been existing in the mud of society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is different from my biological mom, with whom I have those powerful memories that always acted like magnets connecting me to her no matter how much time passed or what circumstances intervened. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He looked to be a powerful man, though well into the winter of his days now, his mane of hair grey going to white. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The Lord do powerful things” she would say. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because you don’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible. Trusting in invisible things makes them more powerful and wondrous. You’ll see.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His powerful arms rowed them away from the shore. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Very well,” said Voldemort, and Harry heard more danger in the silkiness of his voice than in the most powerful curse. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was hard for Abuela to get the words out, but she still sounded powerful. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He came at a run, as a dog will come when it is called, and the gods marveled to see how big he was and how powerful. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

An adult mind that is brimming with chunks is a powerful engine of reason, but it comes with a cost: a failure to communicate with other minds that have not mastered the same chunks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

With a powerful arm, Grandma swung Mrs. Wilcox’s bulging valise aboard, then a picnic hamper. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

That my father and my grandfather were so desperate for a powerful heir, to prevent the end of the Malfoy line, that they . . . that they used a Time-Turner to send my mother back . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

This time I can hug him, and the clasp he returns is powerful, many times stronger than any human embrace I will ever experience. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Pap told them, the stories were vital and powerful. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a powerful moment for the girls of Troop 11. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bentley was in deep, a Soviet agent operating quietly in the heart of the world's most powerful country. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Percy had seemed so intimidating and powerful, like a real hero. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

An army of Sixers stood in front of me, and several different gunter clans surrounded me on all other flanks, brandishing swords and guns and weapons of powerful magic. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The stag’s light, more powerful and more warming than the cat’s protection, filled the whole dungeon as it cantered around and around the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was the language of the King James version of the Bible that was both powerful and beautiful. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He simply likes people, in a genuine and powerful way, and he finds the patterns of acquaintanceship and interaction in which people arrange themselves to be endlessly fascinating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya priests tracked the movements of Venus, which they regarded as a powerful portent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course they will. For this mission, I am an employee of the Order of the Clean Hand, our secret police. They are very powerful. They’re the ones who asked me to come here.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

These powerful men managed to keep all federal housing assistance programs out of Durham for a decade and a half. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But on the farther bank of the river lived the rich and powerful Etruscans, whose fugitive king, Mezentius, was helping Turnus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there that he felt whole and powerful. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar may have been glad to discover that he had at last become the most powerful man in Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

From what I’d heard, my parents were powerful people in the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The mayor was a very powerful man, with a lot of influence.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I fell to the ground, and the rain was so powerful, it seemed to be pushing me into the thirsty earth as it tried to soak up every drop the clouds offered. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Really, it was difficult to know what such powerful spirits lacked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more time passed, the more powerful he got. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

What would it feel like to ride such a powerful animal? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And if the duke hated her as much as it seemed, she might have powerful allies when the time came to make sure Lillian released her hold on Dorian. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Any nobility resided in his powerful brow; his other features necessarily surrendered to it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment Ladd Devine Senior appeared in the doorway behind his grandson, laid powerful hands gently on the boy’s shoulders, and jovially mused. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, unless the fascination is too powerful, there comes the point when keeping still is discarded and the rabbit, as though breaking a spell, turns in an instant to its other resource—flight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems you’ve been experiencing some very powerful feelings,” he said, sleepy-eyed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is maybe the most far-reaching implication of the powerful lure of our technology: If it co-opts our attention, it could reshape our sense of reality. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

May I remind you this is a very powerful witch. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

A powerful figure in Washington, he was allowed to shape the agency as he wanted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The wind kicked up, skimming clouds over the surface of the full moon, which was hung just to make us feel powerful and strong. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A powerful pecan essence wafted into my face, not at all unpleasant, considering how sick I was of pecans. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There is a powerful lesson in classical music’s revolution. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The brief but powerful text read, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Their Baltimore dreams were displaced by more powerful ones. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And this change, O most learned Prince, has doubtless been brought to pass by the powerful incantations of those wicked persons who now call themselves kings and queens of Narnia." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Lyra stood shivering in the fo’c’sle and laughed with delight as her beloved Pantalaimon, sleek and powerful, leaped from the water with half a dozen other swift gray shapes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed how powerful his muscles looked under his glossy coat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the most powerful love potion in the world!” said Hermione. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There he smelled caches of game buried in the soft earth, but they were marked with powerful warning scents, so he did not dig them up. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So either Christoffel’s father is a powerful businessman, or he’s a member of the Red Cross, which has an office in Den Haag. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The powerful magnets jolted the fourteen-ton vacuum tanks out of place, which threatened in turn to pull apart the superstructure of pipes, pumps, and cables. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The graph represents a powerful new tool for thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If he yelled, it would make me angry, and when angry I felt powerful. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Forget can be a powerful tool for distracting an adversary. It can leave them feeling scorched and barren. Whoever wears this will forget something important.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Billy had powerful psychosomatic responses to the changing chords. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie took a deep breath and thought about what Aunt Rose had said that first night she spoke to Ophie—that some of the more powerful haints could take control of a person’s body. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the long narrow cabin, by the light of a lantern on a hook, she saw a stout powerful woman with gray hair, sitting at a table with a paper. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And her teacher—once so strong and powerful—was fading by the day. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Metaphors like those about celestial campfires or galactic backbones were eventually replaced in most human cultures by another idea; The powerful beings in the sky were promoted to gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a solid punch to Jim Crow, one that produced powerful shock waves throughout the South. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The one dark red leg that they could see ended in a webbed foot and three powerful, taloned toes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prince couldn’t topple a powerful witch on his own. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Two of Morgant’s warriors threw themselves in front of him to defend their lord, but Smoit cut them down with powerful blows and strode past. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neel’s stomach coiled like a cobra—how could a big, powerful man like Gupta hunt down a defenseless tiger cub? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fire had obliterated the heart of the city, its very center of business and culture, then had gone on to wipe out the residences of its wealthiest and most powerful citizens. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We couldn’t let something so powerful loose in the world.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But here the river was pulling her downstream, and she was trying desperately to elude its powerful grip. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had been given the name of a powerful male dog, but she was a cat without personality, which is why True Belle liked her and wanted her close by. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they found was disturbing: in mission after mission, noncancerous cells grew normally in orbit, but HeLa became more powerful, dividing faster with each trip. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What a fool you are, Basta! I’m not talking about children’s magic. I mean the magic of the written word. Nothing is more powerful for good or evil, I do assure you.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This person, the book went on to say, was one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, even though his business was illegal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kissed my forehead, and then I felt his powerful chest deflate just a little. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He felt suddenly much older, and overwhelmingly strong and powerful, he could do anything at all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Possibly. I hope not. If so, it was done with great subtlety. There are powerful limits to how any outsider can intrude on a preserve. And our preserve is more secret than most.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Her voice was the bellow of a bull, a deep and powerful shout with flat edges like a circus barker’s voice. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very good, Donovan. That was indeed the next question. Evidently my creator must be more powerful than myself and so there was only one possibility.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Minos, the powerful ruler of Crete, had lost his only son, Androgeus, while the young man was visiting the Athenian King. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And there's a blinking "ALERT" on the screen next to a block of text: The Earth's environment is currently bombarded by high-energy particles accelerated by a powerful solar eruption last night. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the hard times, it gave his boys a powerful incentive to make it into one of those top boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was hoping to see him disintegrate, but this monster was much too big and powerful “Get Annabeth!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about going back to Suttung’s hall and once he was there telling his brother that he had helped bring a powerful magician up Hnitbjorg, had even helped him to get inside the mountain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We got a whole debate out of which Luke and which Leia were most powerful. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half- man and woman. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Wolf specialized in infiltrating the West German government, sometimes with "Romeo spies," who would strike up romances with unsuspecting single women—many of them secretaries to powerful generals and political figures. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

February is a powerful month for virgin martyrs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had a very powerful computer in that back room, the kind I had, homemade, no machine ID, untraceable, the kind you never dock to an Ethernet cable, to keep yourself invisible. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For all the fine speeches about equality, the actions of a powerful few spoke much louder. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pronounced a hasty benediction: “Heavenly Father please make me a powerful instrument of Thy perfect will here in the Belgian Congo. Amen.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the songs are about worshiping the powerful leader of the Angkar, Pol Pot, the glory of Angkar society, and the unbeatable Khmer soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just my luck. I’m the lamest satyr ever, and I find the two most powerful half- bloods of the century, Thalia and Percy.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, what makes television so powerful, Dr. Anderson notes, is that it uses these attention-capture tools to constantly draw people back into the story, should their top-down focus waver. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At a nearby Indian village, Washington met with Half King, a powerful Seneca chief who hated the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kennedy turned to the most powerful mass medium of his day: radio. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“To the Doors of Death, you mean. But you told us it’s guarded by Gaea’s most powerful forces. How could two demigods possibly—?” “I don’t know,” Nico admitted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Garvey nodded and said, “The whale is also smart and powerful. That is what I learned from my dance.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She kept scraping, gritting her teeth, and held on to her thoughts, for once again she could feel the presence of the powerful mother bear at her shoulder. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A sudden powerful how-dare-I-talk-to-him-about-my-artwork feeling is overtaking me, but it’s been so long since we’ve connected about anything, so I go on. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If this were an enchantment of illusion, it was powerful beyond belief; to make the Open Sea seem land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Internet, powerful as it is, has hardly slain the beast that is information asymmetry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The fast numbers were a riot of energy, and the ballads put the entire place into some kind of powerful, floating dream state. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a deep, powerful, huffing roar, amazing for an animal normally as silent as a giraffe. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thoughts weren’t powerful enough by themselves, and the curse hadn’t worked. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He let a powerful wave lift and carry him toward shore, then swam back out. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His voice became heavier, ancient, and powerful— the voice of the Titan lord Kronos. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that cultural legacies matter—that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“His jealousy and hatred have been powerful tools. It has kept him obedient. For that I thank you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Name for me five species that generate neurotoxins powerful enough to be effective on a poison-tipped dart.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Watching the battle of wills between Captain Smith and Chief Powhatan is like watching the dance of a sword fight between two proud, powerful men. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had a very powerful sense of deja vu. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not one but two powerful goddesses aided her, yet the kill was for Reyna to complete. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Panicked, Black Dog tried one huge, powerful cut and missed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Archie had overcome them as usual, pointing out that Leon’s need for an endorsement from The Vigils was a symbol of how powerful the organization had become. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they put it on the altar, too, and called it the Crocodile Stone, and from then on it became the mysterious and powerful source of much of Set’s power. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eisenhower also understood that young people were a powerful force that could help shape Germany’s future. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that she couldn’t have made up that powerful memory. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before Livingston’s results had been validated properly, Ernest was mapping out a campaign to acquire a more powerful electromagnet to drive protons beyond the million-volt threshold. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My nanni used to tell me that this was one of the most powerful verses of the Quran. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His writing was beautiful and powerful, and the lively and vigorous flourishes in his calligraphy awed us. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gurgi hastens to obey, mighty lord. He will say no more, not even whisperings of what he saw. No, he will not disturb the sleepings of powerful heroes. See how he leaves, with tearful farewells.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The Galtonians had been convinced that eugenics would ultimately generate radical equality—transforming the weak into the powerful. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He looked like the same boy she had always known, but he was acting as if he were as powerful as the Sea King. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Clouds of water vapor swirled around me, winds so powerful they buffeted Hyperion and flattened the grass in a twenty-yard radius. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sticks and stones,” I mumbled, though I wasn’t feeling very powerful at that moment. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe there are two kinds of powerful beings in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though he was powerful, he was bound and burning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Hab had secondary and tertiary communications systems, but they were both just for talking to the MAV, which would use its much more powerful systems to relay to Hermes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was developing a powerful crick in my neck. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We chanted this most powerful of our arsenal of insults as long as we could see the green stems and rabbit fur. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we showed that Americans are willing to fight the most powerful army in the world. We showed that we can hold our ground.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying water pistols charged with a powerful anssthetic, four others had pushed their way into the crowd and were methodically laying out, squirt by squirt, the more ferocious of the fighters. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the game was adjourned on the forty-first move, Fischer’s powerful position was irresistible. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Flora’s father's car seats smelled like butterscotch and ketchup, and Flora was in the backseat, where the smell of butterscotch and ketchup was the most powerful. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

His mind was sharp and clear and powerful, though, and soon Lyra came to love him for his knowledge and for the firm way he directed her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At some radio frequencies the Earth has become by far the brightest object, the most powerful radio source, in the solar system— brighter than Jupiter, brighter than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Social class—that elusive combination of income, education, occupation, and wealth—played a powerful role in Miele’s, Wilson’s, and Gora’s struggles to recover. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But this is only a wish because my mother—the powerful mambo—is not here with her songs and prayers and drums and offerings to make it so. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As Dr. Strayer began, Bunderson, sitting next to Reggie, had a powerful, initial visceral reaction: This Dr. Strayer sounded very credible, like a good witness. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Only one of the veterans I interviewed, David Oshiro, has never been to the Wall, paradoxically because the memorial’s design is so powerful. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The second was high and more powerful than the first, and the third was a spectacle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, the vault we need to get into isn’t empty, and I’m guessing its protection will be pretty powerful,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Here it is to be noted that a prince must avoid ever joining forces with one more powerful than himself to injure others, unless necessity compels you, as was mentioned above. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Peroxide is a very powerful chemical. It's what they put down the lavatory to disinfect the pan only they give it another name." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

More precisely, Ernest was racing for money to build an even more powerful accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The bones from a black cat are powerful.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The Fairy Queen is widely considered the most powerful figure in all fairydom. The groundskeeper had a desperate need and went to plead for her assistance. Apparently she was not impressed.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“He’s hung up. And now he keeps glancing over. Don’t worry—I’m looking at Thomas and just using my powerful peripheral vision to relay this information to you.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was her new, more powerful magic talking, but Seven had never remembered a more beautiful spring in Ravenskill. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

About how sometimes you needed someone to remind you of how powerful you were—then you would surprise even yourself. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If the wave was that powerful, then it may have triggered and absorbed other pods in our path.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Crouch was pulling him closer; Harry tried to loosen Crouch’s grip on his robes, but it was too powerful. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The more he recalled, the less sense it made....Voldemort had said nothing about Harry’s wand, nothing about the twin cores, nothing about Gregorovitch making a new and more powerful wand to beat Harry’s.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her sister's breathing in the dark room was like having a powerful, tamed animal at the foot of her bed ready to protect her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He looks powerful in his black suit and leather briefcase. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The South African government had powerful allies in Great Britain and the United States who were content to maintain the status quo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Knowledge can be a very powerful and, for some, frightening thing, Kyle. Especially when it’s shared with the whole world, including your neighbors.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tell me what happened, but there was such a powerful need in me, pent up for so long, to speak about it, to say the words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t so heavy, but even by midmorning, the heat was just something powerful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After so many days of the darkness of her cell, the glory of that view was powerful—and very, very frightening. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that did not mean Toussaint had won—he still faced two more powerful foes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie’s known to be the meanest, most powerful numbers runner in the racket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she could catch him, she would have his powerful claws and beak to contend with, and she knew what damage they could do. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And hope is like love ... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nick didn’t know it until the attack was under way, but he had a powerful defender of his own—good old Mom, the white queen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then he made a harsh sound in his throat and with a violent thrusting movement of his powerful arms pushed his way through. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

That was a stark, powerful reality that the gentle conveniences and luxuries of this house, of now, could not touch. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I'd shouted back that I did worship Gandhi, because he was a powerful historical figure who helped free India from British rule. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It is much too powerful to be misused, as I fear it has been already.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Obviously, Reynard, you were unaware of the extent of my improvements. You needn’t be seated in my lovely Whisperer to experience its most powerful effect. In this room you are all quite within range.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mankind’s chief hope of escaping the wrath of whatever divinities were then abroad lay in some magical rite, senseless but powerful, or in some offering made at the cost of pain and grief. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other young man, Joe Rantz, also a freshman, was nearly as tall, at six foot two and a half, but more tautly built, with broad shoulders and solid, powerful legs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This family was so powerful, there was no use in trying to fight them. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mark swore that time slowed down when that thing was up there, beating down on them with its abnormally powerful rays. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She was so powerful that her blowing her breath into the doll was enough to make her move, and smile, and make me feel connected to my grandmother even though she was gone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I give unto you the most important and transcendent star, the Morning Star, for you are a proud and powerful people. It is the star for counting the years — the years of manhood.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the long days and months and seasons built a powerful restlessness into the boy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand years before Christ, near the eastern end of the Mediterranean was a great city very rich and powerful, second to none on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The influence of Greek art and literature became so powerful in Rome that ancient Roman deities were changed to resemble the corresponding Greek gods, and were considered to be the same. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had insisted on going with her—” “You think you could’ve fought something powerful enough to kidnap Artemis? There’s nothing you could have done.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Though it is not widely known, the prosecutor is the most powerful law enforcement official in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then, with a shake of his powerful head, he launched into a gallop and led his four-legged band in the opposite direction. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then it glided down and landed with brisk sweeps of its powerful pinions, and came to a halt on the wooden deck a few yards from Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was another blast, to my left, not as powerful as the first. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt pulsing vibrations, like she was standing in front of a powerful stereo speaker during a song with lots of bass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Of how he recognized her powerful way with horses the very moment she entered his menagerie tent three years before—sensed it from the horses themselves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

This one was lean, strong, powerful—and taller when he stood up, as he now did, rising to his feet with slow, feline grace as Julius drew near. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The angrier, more powerful ghosts used the trolley to find new hosts: tired, unsuspecting bodies to possess for a little while, warmth to steal from cheeks and other exposed skin, and ill tempers to stoke. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then with one powerful heave and a groan Florence shook off his tormentors. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A major escalator transaction works up a powerful thirst. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is said that the moon is very powerful. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The farther in the past such an event is, the more powerful may be its influence—because the longer the lever arm of time becomes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down below us, the two powerful Titan engines were churning away. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very little escaped this woman who rode the trolley against traffic at 6:00 p.m.; who examined the trash baskets of powerful whitemen, looked at photographs of women and children on their desks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I grab hold of my nuts, I want the manager to run over with the jock powder, cause I’m gonna have a powerful itch.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This statement is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Most of his forces are more powerful at night, too. But they’ll be back after sundown.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The angel could see the little green thing dimly through the backs of his clasped hands, and she was sinking her powerful jaws again and again into his palms. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ten very powerful fingers gripped Mulch by the ankles. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was meant to keep anyone from adding more coven members or becoming too powerful. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Had I not followed God’s orders to stop these fallen angels from living with the humans, then people, us, everyone, would have been taught to be as smart and powerful as God himself?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, the now thirty-seven-inch cyclotron gave birth to a powerful beam. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It had been her most powerful weapon, because it was their most potent fear. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, his voice was amplified through powerful speakers mounted on the Sixer gun-ships and hover tanks, allowing him to be heard by everyone in the area. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The taste was like something powerful, like the time her father was drinking some home brew that one of the inmates had made, and he let her have a couple of sips. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Information is so powerful that the assumption of information, even if the information does not actually exist, can have a sobering effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare’s powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, new, more powerful disinfectant was purchased for the basins and foot spas. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But there is plenty of scope for arguing with ‘is’ statements, and one could hardly describe them as stubborn or powerful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Its powerful high reached the brain in just a few seconds—and then faded fast, sending the user back for more. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When I grin—because let’s face it, I can’t help but grin; it’s nice to feel powerful again—she looks at my mouth again and licks her lips. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And it was as such that he was approached for a painting by a powerful magistrate. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This wilderness of North America’s most powerful black man!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beefy is incredibly powerful for a baby. Maybe even destined for the Guard,” said the Gran. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends—daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

To the powerful elder statesmen who remembered their biological father well, he was always “Mr. Hunter.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But being sent to sit with the brain trust located on the second floor of the building meant getting a close look at one of the most important and powerful groups at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And each was both old enough and young enough to actually believe she was a princess riding in a regal chariot driven by a powerful coachman. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is Benediction and hymn singing in English, Irish and Latin and best of all the big powerful sermon Redemptorist priests are famous for. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some powerful force had come to dwell inside me, something bigger and stronger than me, and it had made me fearless. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A conversation between an acorn, a sapling, and a powerful oak. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Byrd’s father, who had also been a powerful state politician, had helped fellow Virginian Woodrow Wilson win the White House in 1912. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It is the most powerful and productive of the things human beings have learned to do together in many centuries, more effective than farming, or hunting and fishing, or building cathedrals, or making money. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To what extent do the “less powerful members of organizations and institutions accept and expect that power is distributed unequally?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Several news publications looked into the predictions of powerful yet clean nuclear weapons made by Lawrence, Teller, and the president and determined they were talking fantasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Why? To be able to design something with your mind and your hands is a powerful skill to have. It’s your own creation. Who wouldn’t want to know how to do that?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Unarmed and defenseless against enemy fighters or antiaircraft fire, the U-2 was purpose-built to house powerful cameras designed for the CIA by Edwin Land, the founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

However powerful Stanton’s words, they were still not strong enough for Congress to follow up with concrete steps to grant women the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sitting, he had seemed a more than normal-sized man, a powerful man, with the shoulders, the arms, the thick, crouching torso of a weight lifter—weight lifting was, in fact, his hobby. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were lessons there, as powerful as the ones Pima’s mother taught when she explained how they were to survive into adulthood. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Zimbardo’s conclusion was that there are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her own parents, locked up for robbing a family-owned movie theater, inspired her kleptomaniac urges, but Aimee discovered working on herself made her feel more powerful than stealing from others. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a very powerful set of statues. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Could technology itself hold the key to helping us remain master over these powerful machines? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Swanning about the elite precincts, the rich and powerful wore finely woven clothing, but only below the waist—breechclouts for men, skirts and belts for women. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s short but even more powerful the closer you get. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

With a powerful heave, he lofted Taran like a sack of meal to the safety of the trail. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

People prayed for rain and used powerful magic to bring on the heavy purple clouds that would save the land, but all this was to no avail. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Frank seemed way more powerful and scary than Leo was. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The boy was a born fighter—ferocious, utterly fearless, quick and powerful—but he didn’t fight often and he hadn’t much to say afterward. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have often wondered if the most powerful words I wrote that night came not from anger or rage, but from doubt: I don’t know. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I am,” Ophie said, but a powerful urge to cry choked off her words and sent her gaze to the tips of her toes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t powerful enough to take his revenge on Zeus, so he cursed the Oracle, dooming a young girl to a horrible fate. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Tall, handsome, and powerful. But gentle, too. You have his black hair, you know, and his green eyes.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Heard that it’s right powerful, but with things the way they are, the iron monsters and them being stubborn, it’s liable to be months before we can try again.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And then she was walking again, striding with a powerful confidence, her hands flying about as if she were drying just-painted fingernails. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Seems they have taken a shine to you, boy. You should find your way back here at some point to see why. Favors from the fairies are a powerful thing, sure they are.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You are very powerful, you and your brother. Like gods,” he says. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Carlos had never been as powerful a rival. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Harry could smell a powerful mixture of dirt, sweat, and, unmistakably, blood coming from him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her voice rose rather hysterically, and Harry caught a powerful whiff of sherry even though the bottles had been left behind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

How could pilots navigate these powerful planes—traveling at hundreds of miles an hour—while looking at the cockpit gauges, listening to the radio, evading antiaircraft fire, and dogfighting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With a sense of ceremony and purpose, I placed the sharp edge against my hair, held it taut with my other hand, and began to cut in short, powerful motions. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I have the job and Mr. Hannon tells me I’m powerful. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A pale adolescent speaking with the authority and vocabulary of a powerful adult. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

One of our prayers must have been powerful because Brenda stays alive and doesn’t die till the second day of school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

With a powerful leap, the creature jumped out, landing on the counter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were meant for this—to hunt and to kill—and there was a frightening beauty in their sharp golden eyes and powerful jaws. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Inside, the taxi reeks of really powerful cologne. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Of course they were to be feared; they were very powerful and very dangerous when angry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this ragtag group was about to battle the most powerful army in the world. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the first week of May a powerful storm dropped an ocean of rain on Chicago and again caused the Chicago River to reverse flow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Everyone in your family is very powerful. Your brother and you divide the world between you. Your mother come back to life to break your bowls. ” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was the Land Cruiser’s center spodight— huge, bright, and powerful, like a setting sun. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other scientists are working on the so-called “juvenile hormone,” a powerful substance which prevents metamorphosis of the larval insect until the proper stage of growth has been reached. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Such behavior of the powerful would be very unlikely in high-PDI Belgium or France. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Aside from making one extended trip back to Hawaii when Barack was ten, his father—a man who by all accounts had both a powerful mind and a powerful drinking problem—remained absent and unengaged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A powerful deep voice roaring, “Pass her up to me!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A “horizontal desire,” coveting a neighbor’s goods, has been replaced by a “vertical desire,” coveting the goods of the rich and the powerful seen on television, Schor said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She went door to door throughout her neighborhood, telling people about how Operation Breakthrough had helped her force the powerful Henry M. Michaux to repair her house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The gale that struck on Saturday evening was even more powerful than the one that had lashed the Col the night before. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Larger ones tended to have more powerful chiefs, more ranks of chiefly lineages, greater distinctions between chiefs and commoners, more retention of tribute by the chiefs, more layers of bureaucrats, and grander public architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But now the bright and powerful feeling drained away. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared to be a messenger from the desert, but his presence was much more powerful than that of a mere messenger. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could our loving, all- powerful Father allow us to suffer so? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swing was so powerful that it dented the metal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand men and ten thousand machines worked ceaselessly through the night under powerful arc-lights, and the massive task was completed only just in time. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night his powerful and commanding voice would lull me to sleep. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The central problem, however, was simple: How could one look through a powerful telescope at a tiny, distant object and make reliable observations while on a ship bouncing about on the waves? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Constance was a far more powerful and accurate thrower than any rat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One of the most powerful of our people was Bishop O. J. Sherman. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, it made me feel powerful, like Superman putting on his cape. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They excluded African American women from their efforts to secure the vote, fearing that it would be more difficult to gain favor for the cause among the powerful white male populace. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Could they be the pictures of the powerful beings in the sky, the ones who make the storms when angry? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud was swirling on the southern flank of the mountain, and long tattered banners of vapor streamed out in the powerful winds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“This young lady here made a powerful statement earlier,” he says, and the camera points toward me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Because even a powerful old wizard was no match for her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As I listened to the president’s powerful speech on Civil Rights, I felt a sense of great relief and sudden hope. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Such is the strange and powerful nature of incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His people were strong, and his warriors were powerful and feared. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Percy was a child of Poseidon’s better nature—powerful, but gentle and helpful, the kind of sea that sped ships safely to distant lands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Down here, surrounded by all the metal and grease, the Jade orbs seemed less fancy and more powerful than they had up above. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I can’t help catching glimpses of us on the huge screens along the route, and we are not just beautiful, we are dark and powerful. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Panthers on TV said they were in communities to protect poor black people from the powerful; to provide things like food, clothing, and medical help; and to fight racism. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A powerful guilt blocked my spoken words; an essential glue was missing whenever I’d try to connect words to form sentences. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not handsome like the first boy, but rugged and compelling, with huge, powerful hands. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was breezy in his manner but powerful in his mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Mandrake, or Mandragora, is a powerful restorative,” said Hermione, sounding as usual as though she had swallowed the textbook. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But the light was powerful—it lit up the entire room whenever it suddenly appeared. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Revealing my identity to the world so that I could accuse one of the world’s most powerful corporations of blackmail and murder didn’t seem like the smartest move. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that awareness during simulations, something that made me feel powerful and unique, something Jeanine and the Erudite killed people for, is actually just a sign of genetic healing to these people. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Both boats had savvy coxswains and powerful, experienced oarsmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallower's sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Only that incredibly powerful artifact could have done this. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Though it is powerful, it is not triumphant; it is agonising - at its climax is a leitmotif associated with suffering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“She must have some motive, more powerful than appears, for refusing this invitation,” was Emma’s conclusion. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It fills me in a way that is as powerful, as spiritual, as high. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a slingshot, the forked stick with an elastic band attached to it, but the powerful sling with which David killed Goliath. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more powerful and more seductive than any human she would ever know, but faced with her, he would do her bidding. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sufficiently powerful and lightweight engine then existed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if I had a stamp I could write to Joe Louis and say, Dear Joe, Is there any chance you could tell me where you got your powerful shoulders even though you were poor? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But he was a powerful dog and Tea Cake was over-tired. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I felt better ’cause that meant he knowed that note was powerful important and needed to be studied hard. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I need help, my boy. I tried to fight them for so long...for so very long. But they were powerful, they took over me...” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Banished? But...you’re more powerful than he is, how could he...?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In truth, the call from Outside had unexpectedly aroused a powerful, long-buried desire. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid, plain and simple, just as she had been afraid to face her powerful feelings for Lio. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because it had taken so long to deliver and master the powerful Pe-2 dive-bomber aircraft with its aircrew of three, the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment still wasn’t flying combat missions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“And none of us watches television or listens to the radio,” said Kate, “because of our minds’ unusually powerful love of truth, right?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

With powerful jet engines and a wingspan longer than its fuselage, the spy plane was "part jet, part glider," according to Powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With one powerful stroke of her wings she was above him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Seven were adults, big grey-brown beasts, savage and powerful, their mouths drawn back over long yellow teeth by their dying snarls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But as the spy wars in Berlin reached a new phase, the world would learn just how powerful a weapon the spy George Blake would turn out to be. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“California Technology is quite a ‘powerful Katinka and is out for both intellectual recognition and financial return wherever proper and possible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was extremely old yet he seemed powerful Muscles rippled over the ebony of his arms and around his shoulders. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home, I asked Allie if he knew of a powerful man who parades the city in such a way. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wielded his useless arm like a club, flexing his powerful shoulder muscles to hurl it against the ground while he barked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later, Onofre Martinez’s powerful three-legged German shepherd charged off its porch like an enraged water buffalo, jumped over the picket fence, and hung on the volunteer’s heels. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many others, particularly since technology has gotten more powerful, the signs of compulsion are even stronger. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The molasses wrapped itself around Carmen’s legs, like millions of powerful snakes dripping with slime. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We re three powerful half-bloods. Our presence should confuse him. Mingle. Act natural. Do some dancing. But keep an eye on those kids.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He felt the powerful muscles of Melynlas moving beneath him, and guided the steed with unaccustomed skill. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is a powerful union whose significance cannot be understated. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

—Appian According to legend, Mark Antony hosted a magnificent feast for Cleopatra and waited for praise from Egypt’s powerful queen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Laura’s talent is for discerning spirits, as opposed to your gift of prophecy. Which is the reason we’re here, isn’t it? You have a gift, Luke. A powerful spiritual gift.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Today, I look back and realize how amazing, precious, and powerful both time and life can be. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I struggled to free myself, but his powerful grip held me firmly in place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For certain types of misbehavior, social incentives are terribly powerful. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In unscrupulous hands I would be a powerful tool. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And what can a guy possibly do besides give in when he's all alone in a room with three powerful females? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Then we make the most powerful statement we can make.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They both were fully alive to their own eminence, each backed by powerful and influential patrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her stance was commanding, one leg thrust forward in a powerful movement, more stride than step. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And only one photo showed his father, dressed in a suit and tie, shoulders broad and powerful, with a neatly trimmed mustache. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He carefully explained that Pyongyang, located about fifty miles south of Camp 14, was the capital of North Korea, the city where all the country’s powerful people lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

From the forests and fisheries and farmlands of an Arcadian state dawned a powerful military capital, a nerve center that had welcomed residents by the hundreds of thousands since the start of the conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The more powerful ones can do that. She did not die, Percy. She simply escaped. It is not good that the she-demons are stirring.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think she understands how physically powerful her father is and how scrawny I am. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The disquietude he felt on Katahdin’s granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men installed a more powerful burner that, once ignited, heated the kiln to three thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Will drove a big Winton now, with a hood as long as a coffin and a powerful, panting mutter in its bowels. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Urvashi was, like, a heavenly nymph queen, and Hanuman, who was the son of the god of the wind, was a powerful demigod. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But radio is powerful, cheap, fast and simple. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Carr had befriended me, and I quickly learned that she was a force of nature—charismatic, powerful, and inspiring. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But if she is so powerful, how could any human succeed?” he asked. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba’s exaggerated love for her was without a doubt the most powerful emotion of his life, greater by far than his rage and pride. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A powerful grin and a lotta smooth talk—did Styx Malone feel like he was looking in a mirror? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Punctuation developed slowly and cautiously not because it wasn’t considered important, but, on the contrary, because it was such intensely powerful ju-ju. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

At first we didn’t realize what it was—it didn’t sound like the gunshots we’d been hearing, distant and powerful. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Old age,” she says, “is a powerful disguise.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The father had once been a powerful magistrate but had fallen out of favor and was bitterly living at the palace. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their wings were twice as tall is she was, and—she glanced back, frightened now, over her shoulder as she fled—they had powerful legs: no wonder they had moved so fast on the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For over a year, the male French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, flying dangerous Soviet Yaks, frequently served as fighter escorts for the women of the 125th Guards in their powerful Pe-2 dive-bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I took another—just a sip—and by the time the bus came, I was bathed in a powerful tingling sensation. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Riding Arion, Hazel felt powerful, unstoppable, absolutely in control—a perfect combination of horse and human. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That’s the other powerful motivation—the customers, or “patients,” as I can’t help thinking of them on account of the mysterious vulnerability that seems to have left them temporarily unable to feed themselves. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Read it! Dumbledore had the Cloak, Hermione! Why else would he want it? He didn’t need a Cloak, he could perform a Disillusionment Charm so powerful that he made himself completely invisible without one!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It is a powerful—if limited—tool that uses statistical techniques to identify otherwise elusive correlations. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

You could see them in the bull-neck, in the big shoulders, in the thick arms, in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like Farmer, the priest believed in liberation theology as a “powerful rebuke to the hiding of poverty,” and he worked diligently to bring public awareness to the plight of rural Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Zero is so powerful because it unhinges the laws of physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I started putting the poison in his tea before I came to Nsukka. Sisi got it for me; her uncle is a powerful witch doctor.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was the way he lived; he passed his days trying to defeat or gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know our barbed wire entanglements are strong and almost undamaged;—parts of them are charged with a powerful electric current. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A reader. The daughter of two of the most powerful people I’ve ever met. You, Sefia, are what makes him special. Of course we want him.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it became menacing, powerful, harsh as stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I stare into the Teklanika, I can hear rocks the size of bowling balls grinding along the bottom, rolled downstream by the powerful current. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the powerful elder statesmen who remembered their biological father well, he was always “Mr. Hunter.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides that, he was powerful: wide across the chest and real muscular. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her howl was so powerful that it shook Roz’s entire body. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A single bite from its massive jaw, one hard swat from its powerful paw, anything now would tip the balance and end this nightmare. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

On September 1, 1923, just before noon, the city was hit by what is known as the Great Kanto quake–an event more than ten times more powerful than Kobe’s earthquake. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I struggled to free myself from his powerful grip, but Coach was too strong for me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

To compensate for this imbalance, he said, magic existed as a third and powerful force. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The instant the animal’s hind legs brushed the trap, he tightened his powerful digits around its neck. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was a powerful scent of flowers—too powerful—as we paused in the lobby. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we left the gymnasium, the stars were so bright, they pulled me up into the sky like powerful magnets. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill, a tall, powerful fighter, made it to the Golden Gloves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stalin was a complex, confusing man who was both powerful and paranoid. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was fear of what I might say that gave me the courage to ask a question of so powerful a person. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The rabbit, a powerful, heavy veteran by the name of Thunder, joined them, stumbling. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something powerful moved through her body, and suddenly the pain that had resided in it vanished. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cooter said, “And look at that first word, famili-arity. That look a powerful lot like it got something to do with family, don’t it?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers, working largely with monkeys, identified a powerful, multifunctional type of neuron in the prefrontal cortex. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I am a more powerful person than my mother will ever know. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It catches the light of both moons and my God it’s a powerful thing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were immediately swept downstream by the powerful current. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is also one of the most powerful and dangerous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Suicide is a powerful temptation for North Koreans plucked out of ordinary lives and subjected to the labor camps’ regime of hard labor, hunger, beatings, and sleep deprivation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“They’re probably coming right—” A loud, slow beeping sound cut him off, like the warning alarm of a huge truck driving in reverse, but much more powerful. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the men were proud that America was part of England, the most powerful country on Earth. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The people need more rain, and it is time to begin my journey as a powerful priestess so I may help them. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Livingston carried Loeb’s doubts back to Lawrence, who extinguished them with a typically powerful display of self-confidence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That pursuit itself is nothing novel, of course, but now, a new generation of powerful technology lets researchers see the inside of the brain, watch it work, literally, and observe when it fails to work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Having recently declared its independence from the powerful Spanish Empire, it embraced more fully than any other nation of its time the European Enlightenment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a powerful force for me, especially at fourteen, with my nerves bright and jangling, ready to launch into a symphony at the slightest provocation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I applauded Team USA in that moment, because their decision to vote for a Muslim American woman in hijab was a powerful rebuke to Trump’s rhetoric. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He was powerful, heavy of shoulders and arm, but his hips were slim. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he struck at Asmodeus, he would be crushed to death against the walls by the powerful lashing coils of the adder in its death throes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Thought I told you stories are powerful magic?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I try to climb to my feet, struggling against the ropes, alarm and a powerful headache both clanging in my head, but there’s no getting free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Germany formed an alliance with Japan, which had a powerful military of its own, and dreams of building an empire in Asia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her charmspeak was so powerful, the words flowed over Annabeth, filling her with the desire to drop her dagger and have a nice long chat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You could not have the confidence of powerful men, and be trusted with their confidences, if there was any prospect that you would challenge their policies in public,” he later explained. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And Despereaux’s love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Cory had seemed cool and powerful last night, with the fireworks in hand. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thanks in part to a young mathematician named Alan Turing, they came up with new ways to tackle Enigma, including much more powerful decoding machines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I think that there are facts about people’s appearance—their size or shape or color or sex—that can trigger a very similar set of powerful associations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was very racy, provocative, a lot of nudity, but the story was powerful, and even though for the first few weeks only a few people showed up to see it, word started to spread. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was a powerful thing to literally hold someone’s fate in your hand, and Joaquin hadn’t had that sort of power in a long time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“No, Percy. I pushed her into going on the quest. I was too anxious. She was a powerful half-blood. She had a kind heart, as well. I ... I thought she would be the next lieutenant.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s when powerful countries take over other countries and call them their territories,” she explained. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I became pregnant, during the last four months, I wore my armor altered so that I looked like a powerful, big man. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he loved the water, but this river seemed... powerful, and not necessarily friendly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But what if Luke’s body is only a transition? What if Kronos has a plan to become even more powerful? I could’ve stopped him The war is my fault.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Mr. Hoffman would have gladly consented for me to take the examination, but my hopes had been far weaker than my powerful fears. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, her mom was the goddess of knowledge, and knowledge was the most powerful weapon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dressed in the right language this might have made a fantastic answer—something about the woman’s serenity standing in powerful counterpoint to the general realism of the piece. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He must be a powerful man, I thought, not a clown at all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of such pressure, the Hitler Youth and BDM quickly grew into the largest and most powerful organization for young people ever known. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to their nasty claws and fangs, they had a powerful ability to manipulate the Mist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she held them, she remembered the powerful wanting she had felt in that dusty store, and the feeling of it was mixed up with fear and shame and darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was not enough for him to have made the Church powerful and to have alienated his allies, for since he coveted the Kingdom of Naples, he divided it with the King of Spain. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

With his own military power and their support, he can very easily put down those who are powerful, and remain complete arbiter of that region. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Light grey is pretty powerful but there are still some areas of the map not yet conquered by its empire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Visiting Memphis accompanied by her powerful protector would earn Cleopatra the unconditional respect and loyalty of all Egyptians.Cleopatra and Caesar’s journey also had religious significance for the Egyptians. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He snorted and dug his powerful claws into the rotten tree trunk, sending beetles and woodlice scurrying as he tore out a chunk of the spongy timber. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But, of course, oarsmen are human and no crew can maintain both powerful strokes and a very high rate indefinitely. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Behind her she heard the continuing roar of the engines, the confused shouts, the powerful voice of the President trying to impose some order on the scene. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Can’t nothing interfere with a broomstick except powerful Dark magic — no kid could do that to a Nimbus Two Thousand.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“These cards are more ancient than your Lotería. More powerful. They will help you reach your destination, the home of your ancestors.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One day, if I studied hard and learned everything I needed to, I might be just as powerful as she was, and make as much of a difference in the lives of our people. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

To grab the answer, and grab it first, is for them a more powerful drive than feeding or breeding or protecting themselves against the elements. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a powerful inducement, but we would do all that is possible without that for his cry is terrible. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then, just think of it as a really powerful, really dangerous solar car.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had plump powerful arms and a vivid yellow dress. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities always imagined that we were secretly linked with all kinds of powerful forces on the outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore two golden-yellow feathers in his hair holder so others would recognize him for the powerful shaman he was. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Which means that although scythes may be the most powerful humans on Earth, they are also the most vulnerable. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I recognize it instantly as the current generation of Warcross glasses that are being sold in stores—much more powerful than the old rentals I’ve been using up until now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the last second they unfurled them and unleashed powerful flaps. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nick noticed that the eyes were softer, but just as powerful. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was quick and powerful, an adult not a pup. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the boat were being pulled forward by a powerful hand. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His short, powerful body took to a uniform well. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might have got much more, a litre I would guess, but the turtle’s beak was sharp and its front flippers were long and powerful, with two claws on each. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t exactly a confidence builder for the man preparing to ride it into orbit, but it was the more powerful Atlas that would be required to accelerate the Mercury capsule to orbital velocity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His foot started toward the ball in a powerful arc, and then—the most incredible thing happened. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t about to argue with this powerful man. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He backed into the wisteria and was grabbed by powerful hands.“Let me go!”Matt shouted.“I’m not an enemy! I’m El Patrons clone!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Em’s singing was powerful and sweet and it felt like something she was giving away. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Grandfather stands in his box, backed by the rest of the family, reminding everyone here that one of the Empire's most powerful gens has seen a son graduate today. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were not allowed to be angry and articulate and powerful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The importance of diffusion, and of geographic location in making it possible, is strikingly illustrated by some otherwise incomprehensible cases of societies that abandoned powerful technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What Dr. Treisman and her peers began to realize and define was a powerful clash going on inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is not to say stigma is absent for white people convicted of crimes; it is present and powerful. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Flora flipped through the pages of the comic and stopped at the panel that showed the glowing, powerful Incandesto. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then all at once, the powerful suction took hold of him completely, and he was pulled under the surface and then into the mouth of the pipe. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something big and powerful spread its wings inside me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining rubber plug he then threw out of sight down the field, with a single lunge ending in a powerful downward thrust of his wrist. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nineteenth-century realization that the living cell was no more than a bag of interconnected chemical reactions had launched a powerful discipline fusing biology and chemistry—biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The reason for that was Mrs. Coulter’s daemon, the golden monkey, who had filled Pantalaimon with a powerful loathing, and who, Lyra felt, had pried into her secrets, and particularly that of the alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Cooter said, “I’m sorry! I don’t know what I done, but I’m powerful sorry, sir!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One of the most important papers in the history of code breaking, it introduced powerful new ways of using statistics to break codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"If it had been as powerful, we'd now be living in a city with eight million immortals." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He also understood that the radio was a powerful political tool because it brought his voice into the homes of ordinary people, making them feel close and connected to him. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Just think of it! America is a land so powerful and rich that they can throw wonderful food like this into the street. I want to live there and never be hungry again.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It took weeks for me to come to terms with this fact, but as I did, I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But even more powerful than those urges was the urge to unpack her trunk and carpetbag and put her room in order. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been a powerful good friend to take me in like this,” the boy said at last. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patterns etched into the top and sides flared with light every so often, as if it held energy too powerful to be contained. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At times it was the silent destroyer, creeping in unseen, unrecognized, except when, like a powerful time bomb, it would explode inside my guts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “and I’ve been wondering about that. I thought it would be burning all the time now Voldemort’s getting so powerful again.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Call it a miracle, an accident, or a case of two powerful personalities willing themselves to expire on schedule and according to script. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

No more than in any other family, to be sure, but more dangerous because more powerful. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following spring, on April 27, 1928, Zoe Stephanides was born, a large, healthy girl with the squarish head of her grandmother, a powerful cry, and nothing at all the matter with her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, when you think of it that way, it sounds kind of powerful. Like no one can sum up your identity without permission. Your real identity, I mean.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And the Mjolnur subwoofer was powerful enough to make my back teeth vibrate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She strove to fill her thoughts with a more powerful emotion than fear or the horrible apprehension of what was to come. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And these were monsters, rearing to the sky, massed like a battalion, too beautiful I thought, too powerful, they were not plants at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Our most powerful story, equivalent in its way to a universal myth, is evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Larger boats with more powerful motors passed by, throwing up waves that rocked the little boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the robot was in range, Broadfoot turned and kicked back with his powerful hind legs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Until that morning, her brother Nico had been the most powerful demigod she knew. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It shows you’re connected. It shows prestige. Do you know how powerful governors in this country are? Executive power is not a small thing,” Priye said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It had a black-and- white tile floor, a toilet that flushed with a powerful whoosh, a tub so deep you could submerge yourself completely in it, and hot water that never ran out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They all murmured the same thing: the Governor was too powerful. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the woman arrives, she is nervous and grasshoppery, smiling falsely, dropping names like a trail of crumbs to the powerful. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Apart from hearing that the queen was powerful, she had heard only that to set foot on her island meant certain death. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Like the carvings and stained-glass windows in European cathedrals, the art in San Lorenzo and other Olmec cities consisted mainly of powerful, recurring images—the crucifixions and virgins, so to speak, of ancient Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If such a man is here at the oasis, he must be the very powerful one,” said the old man after thinking for a few moments. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a huge, powerful voice, roaring at the top of its lungs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Any wind—even the lightest—draws from the height of the elms a rushing sound, multifoliate and powerful. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the natural environment there was rapidly substituted an artificial one composed of new chemical and physical agents, many of them possessing powerful capacities for inducing biologic change. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a powerful military organization called the Thought Police in Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was our father, the most powerful of the gods. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In a crystal case at the top of the far wall sat the most powerful weapon in all of Ravenskill, and maybe the whole Twelve Towns: the Celestial Sword. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shabani was a small boy like us and not that powerful, yet he boasted like a man with biceps the size of anthills. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“A powerful white man,” Coach says, woeful, “jailed an innocent black man. Dumas was disappeared.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pressed it and the tiny powerful motor inside the yo-yo began to turn. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

That is a very powerful and highly symbolic book. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Physicists could certainly design more powerful atomic bombs, he argued. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Christmas, he managed to cadge on temporary loan from a laboratory colleague a magnet twice as powerful as his paltry four-inch model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s also a powerful predictor of how we act in certain kinds of spontaneous situations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Styx came to us like magic—the really, really powerful kind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Its back legs must be incredibly powerful because it lands a mere ten feet below us, its pink lips pulled back in a snarl. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I would tell the tale of how all the gods of MidPass and Alke united to defeat a powerful foe. Yes, I would tell that story.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s a hard lesson but a powerful one. Any day can be our last. We must get right with the Lord.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no weapon on Earth as powerful as a big cannon. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Good God, Eleanor, stop. You're blinding me. Is that why you keep that smile locked away, because it's too powerful for mortal man?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Why is this Jenna Fox so strong, but I feel less powerful than a single kilowatt? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

To be a physically powerful woman—it was something. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I remember Ma said, “Doves fly, straight and powerful.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were more powerful than regular half-bloods; We were too unpredictable. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That feeling that reminds you how massive this world is, how tiny but powerful humans are. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To deny its powerful, subsisting reality would be to endorse a simplistic and ultimately unhelpful evasion. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And I know it’s a lie, but what a powerful one! The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

On hands and knees, I leaned forward and stuck my head in the tunnel and was overwhelmed by the raw, powerful stink of whiskey. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Figure 2.9: Voices are as individual as faces; some altos will have a narrower or wider range, or the sweetest and most powerful part of their range in a different place than other altos. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Once there was a magistrate who was quite powerful and proud. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The denial rang out loud and powerful, and Moss wished he could see how many people were beyond his line of sight. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Half the team wanted Bien on defense, where he could clear the ball with his powerful kick; the other half wanted him at forward. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There was even a pulse under the fur, a slow and powerful beat that pressed against her flesh. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Not because of what I was about to do, or the way I would be using him, but because he thought he knew what it meant to be powerful and in control. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He wanted to drop the brick, wanted to be free of this warm blood that crept and grew powerful with each passing moment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To Charles it was powerful and in some ways inspiring. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Understanding flooded him, relief did, too, so powerful it almost made him cry, right there in the headmistress’s office. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And Verdi understood that opera was at its most powerful when attempting to impart universal truths through emotionally engaging morality fables. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My debts and rent were paid and my papers in my hieb-pocket; shirtless I left the island in the Markets, and went with Yegey back among the houses of the powerful. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was powerful, and it was transferred by their connection. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

His voice was a powerful one, though I couldn’t help but listen to the voices at school and on TV. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I hear Four’s voice in my head, telling me that the most powerful weapon at my disposal is my elbow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It was highly dramatic. Stephen Byerley was a young lawyer, a powerful speaker, a great idealist—and with a certain flair for biophysics. Are you interested in robotics, Mr. Byerley?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

At the sight of the food falling her way, Lady felt a powerful desire to live. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He said I’d grow up powerful if I had nothing else but two eggs in a pint of porter every day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She believed the unconscious was a powerful force. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Growing up in rural North Carolina, she had always thought of the Klan as a powerful, terrifying force. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its powerful magnetic field, amplified during the collapse, traps charged particles rather as the much tinier magnetic field of Jupiter does. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the talk was ordinary, about the state of the crops or the weather, but often it centered on Khan Sahib, our village's powerful landlord. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. Artemis is a lot more powerful than that. Who could kidnap her? And why?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was forced to acknowledge that volition alone, however powerful, was not going to get me up the north wall. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, the shrewd and ruthless dictator immediately grasped the implications of such a powerful weapon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A fact, on the other hand, is strong and powerful. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ocean here felt different—still powerful, but freezing, slow, and primal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were especially powerful in the South, where many people didn’t support female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“In here are the blackened bones of the lion and leopard, along with other powerful roots and herbs.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

First Sticky would need to resist Mr. Curtain’s invitation—and with the pull of the Whisperer so powerful, with Mr. Curtain now so likely to succeed, could Reynie hold out hope for this? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most powerful of them was Mother Water Monster, who offered both her domain and nourishing waters to these unfamiliar beings. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Mutual also forged links with religious leaders in Durham that allowed them to control the most powerful of all black institutions: the church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I fought the powerful urge to storm off, but to where? The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, what makes slot machines so powerful, at least in part, is that they so often leave the player unsatisfied. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“They don’t seem to realize,” she whispered, “how powerful the Royal Fleet is. Once when the Royalists were trying to hold Bridge town, Barbados, Parliament sent a troopship and subdued them in no time.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The girl would grow up highly educated and extremely powerful. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t she supposed to be the most powerful person in all the fairy world? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the pod and touched it delicately with those powerful, flexible trunks, and she found herself interpreting the soft chirrups and clicks and hoots they were making as expressions of disapproval. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The chance to identify with a powerful and wealthy entity—the company or the boss—is only the carrot. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each blow was more powerful and furious than the one before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My unexpected success came from using a powerful rotating anode X-ray tube which had just been assembled in the Cavendish. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Routine was a powerful icebreaker with the boys who drank their morning coffee with Hobie. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it were not so, the wickedness of the powerful or the folly of the wise would long ago have sought to change what cannot be changed, and Equilibrium would fail. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“At my Lord Zeus’s command,” Artemis said, “my brother Apollo and I shall hunt the most powerful monsters, seeking to strike them down before they can join the Titans’ cause. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

From 1975 onward I therefore started to develop a more powerful approach to quantum gravity based on Richard Feynman’s idea of a sum over histories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thunder's so powerful it seems to shake the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It is only powerful in a kind of collective sense, when one massive object like the Sun, holds on to another massive object like the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Daily, she took OxyContin, a powerful opiate, to cope with the headaches. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And if I wasn’t powerful or well-armed enough to defend myself, I wasn’t going to stay alive for very long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He seemed so strong, so remarkably powerful,” the Count went on, his voice warm and lulling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mind went back to the many afternoons I had spent watching movies about powerful and fearless white gladiators with sharp swords and glistening daggers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To have any chance of leaving Riverbank, they would need powerful allies—and they would have to work in absolute secrecy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the room already there was a tall powerful man with white eyebrows. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bad coffee was dumped on Ball’s Wharf, where it putrefied in the sun and sent out a powerful odor that could be smelled over a quarter mile away. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The quiet was as powerful as the drum of hail had been moments before. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were driving, the powerful motor purring and filling me with pride and anxiety. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A free concert at the Lincoln Memorial would attract thousands of people, far more than any auditorium could hold, and would send a powerful message of defiance against the injustice of bigotry and racial discrimination. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Those tracks have long been abandoned, and the Wood is thought to be the home of dangerous beasts and the most powerful of all the fairies. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large powerful bow, something along the lines of a crossbow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Modern business people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, I’d dreamed of being one of those powerful girls in their shimmering leotards, flying through air, sticking the landing every time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What the classical music world realized was that what they had thought was a pure and powerful first impression—listening to someone play—was in fact hopelessly corrupted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you can. This dagger is as powerful a thing as I have ever had.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even among those powerful engineering minds, he stood out. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As a result these powerful substances could easily penetrate the inadequate defenses of the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a child's vow from fairy tales, where breaking it was a curse, and it was more powerful to Lazlo than any vow on god or monarch would have been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For one thing, an eight-oared racing shell—powered by unusually large and physically powerful men or women—is commanded, controlled, and directed by the smallest and least powerful person in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A powerful gust of wind caught her wings and swept her upriver. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sweeping devastation was giving rise to powerful new social forces. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The value of some resources, however, is assigned by the most powerful people in a society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

How could I be the son of someone that powerful? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small as she was, she had jabbed him with her already powerful talons as he carried her to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After long wanderings and many trials on land and sea he reached Italy, where he defeated those who opposed his entering the country, married the daughter of a powerful king and founded a city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Facing the danger that the Tribune’s suggestions might take hold, Ida Wells-Barnett mounted a counterattack, bringing together powerful white friends who were able to stop the segregationists’ momentum. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And there are few incentives more powerful than the fear of random violence—which, in essence, is why terrorism is so effective. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful nation in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The general must have been an extremely powerful person to change someone from a god into a man. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first was built largely around a core of last year’s freshmen: Don Hume, the big powerful stroke; Gordy Adam at number seven; William Seaman at number six; and Johnny White at number four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We saved the most powerful evidence for the end. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is. Seven, I don’t want you to get your hopes up. Unfortunately, there are some powerful witches who oppose the amendment.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It's a powerful grip for such delicate- looking fingers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But liquor smuggling was so lucrative that it encouraged powerful new gang alliances—and alcohol profits made those gangs almost untouchable. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They sat up at the same moment, and for both, the sudden absence was the powerful inverse of the presence they’d felt just an instant before. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I realize that I’m mouthing off to one of the world’s most powerful people—to my idol, someone I’ve watched and read about and obsessed over for years, someone who had changed my life. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would open the windows to let in streams of air and light, but the flowers never lasted until nightfall because Esteban Trueba’s thundering voice and slashing cane were even powerful enough to frighten nature. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still found it hard to believe that this ridiculous man could have created anything so sleek and powerful. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He worked with his daddy, who was a blacksmith, and he had big arms and powerful shoulders. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words wound through Aru, powerful enough that she imagined she could see them floating around her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The trees and bushes are all wrapped in ice, reflecting sunlight into something powerful. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as a powerful surgical antiseptic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

So long as the memory of them lasted, Rome was always uncertain of those possessions; but once this memory had been wiped out because of their long and powerful rule, the Romans became sure possessors. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if— The draccus roared then, deep and powerful as before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a topmost scent of joss sticks and incense, like the fumes of some exotic smokehouse, but beneath the smoke lay a deeper and much more powerful stench. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s father stood there, his powerful dark-eyed face at first fierce, triumphant, and eager; and then the color faded from it; his eyes widened, in horror, as he recognized his daughter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even this flicker of optimism was about to disappear, however, for a powerful weather front was moving across the prairie, toward Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“But jealousy . . . it’s a strange thing. So much more powerful than I would have thought. And irrational! Just now, when Charlie asked you about that vile Mike Newton ...” He shook his head angrily. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting across from me is my father, and as I look into his worn face it hits me, a truth so powerful I don’t know why I’ve never understood it before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were giving off a very powerful smell of rotting fish. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Memory Charms can be broken by a powerful wizard, as I proved when I questioned her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Crocodiles lurked on the banks—could one have captured the cub in its powerful jaws? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

This devil might seem powerful, but finally I had a power stronger than his. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only because Japan was a populous, isolated island could it get away with its rejection of the powerful new military technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Acquaintances, in short, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“STUPEFY!” roared twenty voices — there was a blinding series of flashes and Harry felt the hair on his head ripple as though a powerful wind had swept the clearing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And education is the most powerful weapon we have to address that problem.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She made the most powerful peoples of the country, the Latins and the Rutulians, fiercely opposed to the Trojans settling there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Superglue is very powerful stuff, so powerful it will take your skin off if you pull too hard. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We all listened to the powerful roar as she ground her Hupmobile into gear. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela was tall and slender, and my mom was much shorter and had powerful hands and a strong build. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He held a black jumbo that sagged at the bottom, containing something heavy, something powerful. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

By put it in the beam, he meant “look at it using the electron microscope,” which is much more powerful than a light microscope, and can see deeper into the universe within. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Elizebeth protested the Navy transfer, she was powerful enough to get a hearing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The economic basis for the powerful Aztec state was hydraulic agriculture. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The powerful spheres were usually reserved for motors and big machines, but up here, tiny Jade orbs twinkled in the windows of fancy shops and cafes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Carrying those full buckets back to the Locktons’ was powerful hard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going with Tina was such powerful social currency, Park was still spending it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I also know that when I become powerful, I will break the cycle of abuse my father started by doing everything in my power to help, not hurt others. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I didn't care if the powerful and wise lioness who had given me life thought I was pretty. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They leered at Harry as he swam past; one or two of them emerged from their caves to watch him better, their powerful, silver fish tails beating the water, spears clutched in their hands. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The wolverine was built low to the ground, and his powerful front feet were almost as big as a man’s hand. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was friendly to the oldest, Kenny Hall, who was forty-two, he developed a powerful crush on me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some Asian peoples tame eagles for use in hunting, although those powerful pets have also been known on occasion to kill their human handlers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was a musical celebration of America’s history and diversity, recasting our understanding of the roles minorities play in our national story, highlighting the importance of women who’d long been overshadowed by powerful men. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The dark creature curls a second tentacle around the bowsprit in a powerful grasp, and tears the bowsprit right off the bow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The wind here was really powerful, and a gust pulled at me so hard, I had to reach for the fence post. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was exactly like a man in early middle age, tall, powerful, and commanding. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My white friends would be disgusted and I recalled the fear that hung over all those who had no protection from powerful whites. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes powerful magic is accomplished by simple means.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That spell had been a powerful one, and her whole body was buzzing with magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was powerful enough that Dandy wanted to move back to Georgetown, even though as a young man he'd needed to escape it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Most powerful kid in the legion. You were the star.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m powerful sorry I got to drag you into this, son. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Music is powerful, my young friends,” she said. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They taught us that physical contact is powerful, so I have been wary of it since I was young. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the unseasonal car, with its powerful air-conditioning switched off and sunroof closed, we started for home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She prepared a vial of very powerful poison and, going to the bay where Scylla bathed, she poured into it the baleful liquid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love, a powerful, wonderful thing. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mhenka is perhaps the most powerful of all, but there are reasons they call it “devil root.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To her personally, her father was a more powerful man, because the president had not taken care of her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Colonel Aureliano Buendía was the only inhabitant of the house who still did not see the powerful old man who had been beaten down by half a century in the open air. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For medieval Christians, the existence of such a chain of humans provided a most powerful and original understanding of original sin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were powerful elements of scientific adventure and the zest for discovery of new lands, new plants and animals, new people; the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone wants to capture the mysterious and powerful reactions we have to the world around us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

America’s black man, voting as a bloc, could wield an even more powerful force. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most powerful and deadly things in the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They are both aspects of calculus, a scientific tool far more powerful than anything ever seen before. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Caesar was a powerful man and conquering hero of the Roman Republic, but at the end of the day, he was merely a public official. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He seemed so powerful, holding his musket and bayonet in two large hands across his chest. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

One might think that judges are the most powerful, or even the police, but in reality the prosecutor holds the cards. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a voice full of fury and adulation, Met Bong yells out, “Angkar is all- powerful! Angkar is the savior and liberator of the Khmer people!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is beautiful and powerful and has my same gap-toothed smile. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And Berger is six feet and the most powerful man in the company. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian had taken such a powerful dislike to Ginger that I realized she must have done something more than shanghai his comic book. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wound up with powerful eyes, so he did. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at Iofur Raknison, so sleek and powerful, and felt a deep sickness in her, like guilt and fear combined. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was the eldest child of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the firebrand Baptist preacher and increasingly powerful political leader. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Computers were finally powerful enough that they could handle more than one “appointment” at once. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But at the last minute, struggling against an equally powerful desire to keep it, she slid it back beneath her tunic. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And his palette is “incredibly dazzling,” his brushstrokes “fiery, very powerful and full of tension.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

‘Matters of fact’, as opposed to matters of law and of faith, becomes an intellectual slogan and a powerful political weapon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see, though, that wielded carefully the light was more powerful than that. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Powers and his fellow test pilots trained for months at a secret facility in a remote part of the Nevada desert known as Area 51, learning to control the powerful experimental planes. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, all the ill wishes he could invent were not powerful enough to rid him of Gebu’s stubborn presence here in Thebes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And the first time I felt powerful in the Dauntless compound was when I was holding a gun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was midaftemoon, the sun was streaming down hot and at its most powerful. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt to him as if he had just undergone some powerful rites of passage and now belonged to the western mountains instead of to the East Coast, fair-haired college culture. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using all his weight and leverage, he hit me with a powerful side kick flush in the center of the chest. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw felt very high up, and somehow powerful, it was like sitting on the back of a great beast. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Fighting for freedom, the former slaves defeated the armies of first England, then France: Europe's two most powerful nations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually Toby cleared his throat and said, “Here’s the thing. I like me a powerful woman.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Millions of members strong, the NRA is the most powerful lobbying organization in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She borrows opera records from the public library and sings with velvety lungs powerful as morning glories. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once or twice I think. They’re some old crew of powerful phantoms. Supposed to have, like, a golden glow. No one knows too much about ’em. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Imbuing violence with holy meaning,” wrote the historian Iris Chang, “the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Proud told your mother his totem was the lion because it made him feel powerful, but he was really more like a leopard. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He empties the bucket into the lavatory and flushes and there’s a powerful stink in our kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If there had been a Europe, he would have been the most powerful man in it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I was pretty sure it led here. Some powerful monster scent... She must’ve stopped here looking for the mystery monster. But we haven’t found anything yet.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know the answer to that, but I can tell you this: The Mesarthim were powerful, but they were nothing holy.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But class is still a powerful force in American life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As they prepared to take their designated places, then, both men were armed with extremely powerful but extremely erratic weapons. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It still glowed, and I felt a gentle pulse of something warm and powerful radiating from the shimmering petals. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A giraffe depends on its powerful, twenty-pound heart to fight the force of gravity to get the blood all the way up its neck. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, Fenris Wolf break your bonds. Show us all how powerful you are.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The powerful current pinned the canoes in place, and water quickly rushed into the vessels and sank them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then, as the doors rise higher, a barrel-like chest, each one different in design, with powerful arms hanging on either side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It featured a shorter layback, a quicker catch, and a shorter but more powerful pull in the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts, and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then I remember the honey badger—pound for pound the most powerful creature on earth! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His voice was booming; every word reverberated with a powerful energy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His slap was swift, powerful, furious, but High-Tech avoided the full impact because he moved back at the last second and Ugwu’s hand only scraped his cheek. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These banners were powerful symbols for each side, so much so that during the war soldiers willingly risked their lives to capture an enemy’s flag or prevent their own flag from being taken. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Though I suppose the powerful all seem the same to us,” the stonecutter said, laughing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The queen is the most powerful and can travel in a straight line in any direction. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Standing at the coffin, looking up at August, I had a powerful urge to tell her right then. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only remember my thighs tensing and my pelvis arching forward with that sudden thunderous urge that is so much more powerful than any other human craving—the need to push. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sometimes think it’s hard enough to find any one of them, even separately. Put them all together and you have something very powerful indeed.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Yesterday’s meal had cleared his senses and fueled his muscles, but now the eggs were gone from his belly and the smells of the warming valley brought on a powerful hunger. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Anicius Boethius was a powerful courtier who was among the finest medieval Western mathematicians, which makes him worth noting. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was slender but had a surprisingly powerful grip when she grabbed your arm to force your attention. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was a secret club, as powerful as any in Boston, and here in the last few years had been hatched much ‘treason,’ as the Tories called it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, from these beginnings, it transformed itself into one of the most powerful English expletives, meaning something like “Die before your time!” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything else—from ambition to love to despair—derives in some way from this single powerful emotion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Aesir were warlike gods of battle and conquest; the Vanir were softer, brother and sister gods and goddesses who made the soils fertile and the plants grow, but none the less powerful for that. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

However, once they have overcome them and have begun to be venerated, having wiped out all those who were envious of their accomplishments, they remain powerful, secure, honoured, and successful. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was sweet and gentle and with the help of her Son they could persuade the powerful Father to change His mind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ask him more about the blink and the powerful eyes but he says, Now do you remember the poem, Frankie, the lovely poem of Patricia? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We have powerful defense mechanisms—personal prejudice, shame, societal messages, and, yes, technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She says it like a whisper, but it’s powerful stuff. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her arms around his powerful neck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

GINNY: Harry, he was kidnapped by a powerful Dark witch, how can that be your fault? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The column announcing her resignation from the DAR triggered a worldwide reaction and demonstrated the powerful impact Mrs. Roosevelt could have when she spoke out on a political or social issue. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

His powerful “I have a dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, won the admiration of people around the world. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand, like the powerful and barely restrained paw of a cougar, touched her belly, her breasts, her throat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were strange shoulders, still powerful although very old, and the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early visitors returned to their homes and reported to friends and family that the fair, though incomplete, was far grander and more powerful than they had been led to expect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was brutally physical, and ugly—although in some small way there was a sense of excitement to the incident in the subway, a sense of being, if not powerful, then less weak. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As a military man, he was skeptical about explosive devices that were too powerful to serve as practical weapons, and less impressed than Truman with the idea that bigger was invariably better. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

These men have been caught halfway through their transformation: ordinary bodies but with powerful, supernatural heads, deformed in the direction of heroism, or villainy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above all, the music of this period was characterised - as were the contemporary sciences - by a powerful marriage of imagination and ambition. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He seems to have some kind of indefinable trait, something powerful and contagious and irresistible that goes beyond what comes out of his mouth, that makes people who meet him want to agree with him. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He beat you!” yelled Ron, and the charm broke, and the defenders of Hogwarts were shouting and screaming again until a second, more powerful bang extinguished their voices once more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then he began to swim with easy, powerful strokes, striking out towards where the current was swift and certain, where the Really Deep began. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His quest to create a powerful first impression was good showmanship, but it also exposed the aesthetic despot residing within. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel’s dæmon, the powerful snow leopard, wanted to see her, and Lord Asriel crouched down to let her put her face next to the sleeping child. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"I had sent away by post, you see, for this very powerful itching-powder," Hortensia said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whichever, it is a shocking sum, and just to mention it is to suggest the presence of a vast, powerful enterprise, intricately organized and coordinated. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pictures looked poignant and powerful, looming large on the walls. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“She said he was... he was the most powerful dragon of all.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The much larger dorados couldn’t match their flying, but they were faster swimmers and their short lunges were very powerful. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized she was going to wear it to the game, but it was all the more powerful here, out in the open, not only on the dance floor at the Winter Ball. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They are sustained by the ancient institutions of religion, which are so powerful and of such a quality that they keep their princes in power no matter how they act and live their lives. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once, the trains were a force of nature to me, something that continued along their path regardless of what we did inside the city limits, something pulsing and alive and powerful. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The ‘Society for Humanity’ is a Northern organization, primarily, you know, and they make no secret of not wanting the Machines.—Susan, they are few in numbers, but it is an association of powerful men. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As my stats continued to increase, I honed my avatar’s combat and spell-casting abilities while collecting a wide array of powerful weapons, magic items, and vehicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I intercepted with Riptide, but his strike was so powerful, my blade could only deflect it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When he was not working, he wrote postcards, scores of them, perhaps hundreds, to the most powerful men in the city, in a voice that presumed he was their equal in social stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The alternative was even worse—that it was proof Yakov was growing more and more powerful, laying down his roots. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, you’ve managed to extract something very meaningful about him from those thin slices of experience, and that impression has a powerful effect on how you experience Tom Hanks’s movies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And if these guys were so powerful that they could keep their camp hidden from Percy, who had all those Poseidonish water powers, they were not fish dudes to mess with. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every one of the ten M.P.s seemed powerful enough to bash him to death with a single blow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I feel about as powerful as an ant.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Their experiment was thus a powerful new proof that DNA is the primary genetic material. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“She was a powerful person. People lived according to her example.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing. Nothing. Closest was that thing to dry up puddles and ponds, that Drought Charm, but that was nowhere near powerful enough to drain the lake.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even Lord Stannis would hesitate to wake the anger of the greatest and most powerful of the Free Cities. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And Lee was aware of a powerful flutter of wingbeats as the eagle dæmon settled again on the basket rim. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more powerful than the gods or Titans. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always prided myself on being powerful, and right now I feel like a nobody and a nothing.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

For me, his powerful presence embodied all that was alluring in Christianity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew it was a powerful platform, and I wanted to tell my story. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Boyle’s law provided a theoretical account of how pressure could be used to produce powerful force, if one could only find a way of harnessing that force for a useful purpose. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The researchers realized that the machines people were building—those mechanized tools of productivity, war, and science—were so powerful that they were moving faster than people could keep up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They’re trying to develop a powerful truth serum, one that even GPs as serum-resistant as I am are not immune to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But she often told him he had a powerful conscience and a good heart. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z