Example sentences for: dictator

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

  • The broad and leafy Avenida da Liberdade runs for 1 km (0.6 mile) north, flanked by gardens, ponds, and fountains, as far as the circular Praça Marquês de Pombal (also known as the Rotunda), where a statue of the dictator Pombal gazes over the city.

  • The center-left daily El País praised Britain Sunday for stripping the former Chilean dictator of "an immunity he has used freely to insult his victims," but warned that there will many hurdles before he can be brought to trial.

  • Especially damning is Farrakhan's close relationship with Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi.

  • The consensus on Jiang's state visit was that it was a "win-win," in the words of Eleanor Clift of The McLaughlin Group . Al Hunt (CNN's Capital Gang ) declared that "Clinton got it right" by simultaneously criticizing China's human-rights violations and toasting the dictator.

  • Welcoming the decision in an editorial, the paper said it "creates a precedent: No dictator or tyrant may cite national sovereignty to claim impunity from justice."


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