Example sentences for: tyrannical

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

  • Radek, the tyrannical leader of Kazakhstan.

  • Some of Brown's opponents have gone negative, calling her "ruthless" and tyrannical.

  • Even if editors at the Times really did consider Texas to be, as you put it, overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek--and let's be honest here, Evan, that's not an entirely inaccurate depiction--I'm still not sure many Texans would even notice.

  • James K. Galbraith, a constant critic of the profession (and a frequent contributor to the American Prospect ), urges economists to emulate "vibrant humanities faculties" in which "departments develop viciously opinionated, inbred, sometimes bitter and tyrannical but definitely exciting intellectual climates."

  • The tyrannical president pretends to get beat up by popular wrestlers chafing under his authority, and WWF fans go wild.


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