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Example sentences for: tyrant

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Peisistratus, a resourceful and relatively benign tyrant, continued to steer Athens towards greatness.
The preeminent islands of this era were Delos, a sacred island and center of religion ruled by Athens; Samos, ruled by the tyrant Polycrates; and Naxos, whose ruler Lygdamis undertook some major building projects.
But these days the besieged tyrant of an ailing country can make the United States look mousy.
To the left of its entrance is a copy of Donatello’s Marzocco, Florence’s heraldic lion, next to his bronze of Judith and Holofernes, which always made the Medici uneasy with its theme of a tyrant decapitated.
Archaeologists digging under the ruins of the residential palace of Roman tyrant Nero earlier this month stumbled on an astonishing find: a 10-foot-by-6-foot fresco, faded but almost completely intact.