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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:

They usually serve to merely entrench a tyrant.
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.
$5-- Features pictures of argument-stopping Hitler, comical tyrant Mussolini, and not actually the leader of an Axis power Bill Clinton.
It soon becomes apparent that solving the mystery will require a blend of reason and superstition--a mighty stretch for a young man whose life is pledged to rationalism and whose unconscious roils with visions of his free-spirited mother (Lisa Marie) being brutalized by a "Bible-black tyrant" of a father.
Welcoming the decision in an editorial, the paper said it "creates a precedent: No dictator or tyrant may cite national sovereignty to claim impunity from justice."