Example sentences for: tyrants

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

  • “Tyranny is funny; not actual tyranny but the attempts of tyrants to cover up their tyrannousness.”

  • It's the hair of the enemy that marks him as such, as with the flowing tresses of royalist Cavaliers (effete tyrants) and the cropped hair of parliamentary Roundheads (crude thugs) during the English Civil War.

  • Conversely, American wins haven't dissuaded tyrants.

  • How many giants and tyrants unlucky enough to have left body parts or ashes behind when they shuffled off the mortal coil could have imagined what scientists and medical practitioners of the future would do with their physical remains?

  • Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., echoes the arguments over Vietnam when he says that if we don't persevere in Kosovo, "tyrants in Europe and Asia and the Middle East will run wild because there's no one on the block to speak for the values and security that we hold dear."


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