OMNIPOTENT in a Sentence

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It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.

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 Meanings and Examples of OMNIPOTENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
omnipotent
 a.  all-powerful; having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  In such words he pleaded, clasping the altars; the Lord omnipotent heard, and cast his eye on the royal city and the lovers forgetful of their fairer fame.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
2  Then Juno omnipotent, pitying her long pain and difficult decease, sent Iris down from heaven to unloose the struggling life from the body where it clung.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
3  At this the Lord omnipotent thrice thundered sharp from high heaven, and with his own hand shook out for a sign in the sky a cloud ablaze with luminous shafts of gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
4  This Saturn's omnipotent daughter in very presence commanded me to pronounce to thee, as thou wert lying in the still night.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
5  So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation's final day.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
6  But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...
7  I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
8  It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
9  But, Uncle Pumblechook, who was omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn't hear the word, wouldn't hear of the subject, imperiously waved it all away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
10  It appeared to be omniscient and omnipotent, and yet was neither seen nor heard.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
11  Thus exhorted, Cedric sallied forth upon his expedition; and it was not long ere he had occasion to try the force of that spell which his Jester had recommended as omnipotent.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
13  Those are so great, and so strong, in the case of promises, that omnipotency itself can be tied by them.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  All my speculations and hopes are as nothing, and like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  To Gopher Prairie the tracks were eternal verities, and boards of railroad directors an omnipotence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  If something could disenchant voters, it would be the image of a political leader who is relying on an omnipotent image to woo votes.
2  Beauty is potent; but money is omnipotent.
3  The monarch regarded himself as omnipotent and responsible to no one for his acts.