Example sentences for: tyrants

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

  • Between her introduction and her conclusion, each of the "empirical" chapters--on the shipbuilders, the Citadel cadets, the "gangstas," the Spur Posse, the Vietnam vets, the Promise Keepers, the football fans, the militiamen, the porno film stars, the fashion tyrants and their slaves, and Sylvester Stallone--can stand alone as testimony to a rich and unique life-world.

  • "America's Nannies, Busybodies, and Petty Tyrants."

  • The liberation of Kosovar Serbs and Serbian holy places from Muslim tyrants became the nationalist rallying cry, as did the redemption of Albanians who had converted to Islam during the Turks' rule.

  • Tyrants, it seems, act up whether the United States has been winning or losing.

  • As you say, the myth of the strong father is one thing; the reality is often quite another: often tyrants who are intimidating rather than encouraging.


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