Example sentences for: strongman

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

  • When that cause, too, failed and, after a decade of blood-spilling, the country ended up with a Byzantine coalition of interests presided over by a strongman, the Paz family went into exile in Los Angeles.

  • Two large wrestlers, symbolic of the first Malla, a strongman, flank the open porch of this structure, and a gilded Garuda kneels on a column above.

  • A NYT below-the-fold article quotes an observer who claims that the election signals the "end of the era of the caudillo (strongman)."

  • Communist Party boss (ostensibly a social democrat) Ion Iliescu ruled between a mob's execution of longtime strongman Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 and his own loss of an election last year.

  • In view of Russia's endemic corruption, American pundits are reconsidering whether a strongman president is such a bad thing.


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