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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:

Congolese (formerly Zairian) rebel-turned-ruler Laurent Kabila is being downgraded from liberator to tyrant.
They usually serve to merely entrench a tyrant.
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.
In a conversation with Bill Moyers July 7, the president sounds like a tyrant one moment, a confused child the next.
But these days the besieged tyrant of an ailing country can make the United States look mousy.