Example sentences for: tyranny

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

  • South Africa's Johannesburg Star, commenting in an editorial on President Nelson Mandela's appeal to African leaders this week to rid their continent of tyranny, was just as pessimistic: "A man-made famine in Sudan, the current border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and ongoing difficulties in bringing peace to Rwanda are among outrages that suggest the end of tyranny in Africa is a long way off."

  • ' In this era of the litigationprone society, including the high rate of malpractice suits, I noted an organization called, HALT `Help Abolish Legal Tyranny.

  • Here on the second floor Boston’s great orators raised their voices against British tyranny, against slavery, and female oppression.

  • Captain Bligh," which rhymes in his mind with the ebb and flow of Caribbean tyranny and freedom: "The ribbed body with its cargo/ stalls in its doldrums, the God-captain is cast adrift/ by a mutinous Christian."

  • He has argued that the cyberindustry's hidden "tyranny of code" can be more pernicious than the clumsy, overreaching state.


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