In a sentence
Six example sentences with global, each labelled with its topic.
A single volcanic winter is a global event: harvests failed the same year in Iceland, China, and Peru.
Environment
The shortage was global, so switching suppliers moved the problem from one continent to another without shortening the wait.
Business
The song became a global hit, topping charts in nineteen countries before the band had played outside their own city.
Music
The outage was global within minutes, as one bad configuration file spread to servers on every continent.
Technology
Global markets fell together that week, and a pension fund in Norway lost money on a bank in Chicago.
Finance
The treaty was global in reach, binding nearly two hundred governments to report their emissions on the same schedule.
Politics
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