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Example sentences for: tyrant

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

While the liberal Sunday paper the Observer welcomed the arrest of "an evil tyrant," saying it shows that the vaunted new "ethical dimension" to British foreign policy has "real muscle," the conservative Times suggested Monday in an editorial that there had been a failure of British diplomacy.
Before you make that call, remember that when a tyrant first appears he always comes as your protector."
More pagan temple than church, it served as a mausoleum for the cultivated but cruel tyrant, Sigismondo Malatesta, and his mistress (later wife), Isotta degli Atti.
He is, of course, "a vicious, ruthless tyrant, but so are many people in the world whom Nato has chosen not to bomb.
Congolese (formerly Zairian) rebel-turned-ruler Laurent Kabila is being downgraded from liberator to tyrant.