Example sentences for: oligarchy

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

  • It ran the town like a private company for the benefit of a local oligarchy, seeking future prosperity as international financiers for the kings of Spain or France.

  • "Above all, the interests and privileges of the oligarchy will be protected."

  • It also instructs them about how things can be different from what they are in today's China--where all power resides in the bloody hands of a narrow oligarchy and a broader party of bootlickers.

  • Gorbachev added that Putin is part of the Yeltsin "oligarchy" and will not carry out the reforms that the West hoped for.

  • In the same year, hatred of the high-handed Tory oligarchy in Upper Canada provoked a rebellion among small farmers and tradesmen beset by economic depression.


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