Example sentences for: dictator

How can you use “dictator” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Every self-respecting dictator will decorate himself with grand military titles--but let us set these baubles aside and concentrate on dictatorships run by genuine career military officers.

  • And one can't help but think Friedman was also making a suggestion by passing along what he's heard about what really happened to Nigeria's dictator when he died suddenly last June: three prostitutes slipped him poison during a tryst, perhaps by putting it in his Viagra.

  • Unsettled by sanctions, riots, and the West's steady bombing, the dictator has been firing military brass and assassinating clerics.

  • Despite bipartisan consensus for toppling the dictator, Clinton's too "wobbly" to do it.

  • An American pol going on American television to say that the Europeans should tidy up the former Yugoslavia without our help is like the Economist running (as has been known to happen) a stuffy editorial saying that a corrupt dictator in some Third World country should resign.


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