Sample sentences for INFLUENTIAL

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Definition

having influence (the ability to affect people or events) — especially due to respect or admiration

The magazine has a special issue identifying the 100 most influential people in the world.

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

A prominent and influential man, reportedly a descendant of the first shogun, Tokugawa was touring camps for the Japanese Red Cross.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

The suit families had relationships with mayors of principalities and influential business men, with key members of what remained of the queendom's military force-relationships that would have to be exploited for her profit and exaltation.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

Though he could have fled with the other wealthy and influential people during the epidemic, he chose to stay and help.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

They used throwaway names with their early efforts, not the identities that Peter planned to make famous and influential.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

I dream that one day I will be an influential politician in Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = affecting people or events

Shiza wanted to introduce us to influential people.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

Influential people in remote areas persuaded the government to build schools which never saw a single pupil.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

In Pashtun society it is very hard to stomach a cousin being more popular, wealthier or more influential than you are.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

My mother comes from a family of strong women as well as influential men.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having great influence

One night, after the mufti had failed to persuade our landlady to cancel our lease, he gathered some of the influential people and elders of our mohalla into a delegation and turned up at our door.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

Within a few hours of the attack, an influential local cleric called Faqir Mohammad, who had run the madrasa, announced that the deaths would be avenged by suicide bombings against Pakistani soldiers.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

Before then mullahs had almost been figures of fun—my father said at wedding parties they would just hang around in a corner and leave early— but under Zia they became influential and were called to Islamabad for guidance on sermons.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having influence (affecting people or events)

Usually politicians only visited during election time, promising roads, electricity, clean water and schools and giving money and generators to influential local people we called stakeholders, who would instruct their communities on how to vote.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

influential = having great influence

He was more influential than the minister of the interior.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
As an influential Nazi, Schindler did have a choice.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box

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