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

Despite Hitler’s efforts at persuasion, Spain’s new caudillo (strongman), Generalísimo Franco, managed to keep Spain out of World War II.
By underscoring his image as a fearless strongman, Putin defies this critique.
More reliable records come with the next major dynasty, the Malla, who were established in about 1200 by the strongman Ari Malla.
Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.
3. He's a strongman.