How to Use autocrat in a Sentence

autocrat

noun

• European autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God.
• That our Congress has become a rubber stamp for an autocrat.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• As an autocrat whose self coincides with Russia, Putin has grown into the job.
  — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• His kind words for these autocrats negate the power of U.S. countermeasures.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 9 Sep. 2017
• Following Trump's example, many of the world's autocrats and dictators are taking a shine to it, too.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017
• An autocrat with a sadistic streak, the reverend mother enforces harsh discipline and seems to enjoy humiliating her young charges.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• Surprising given past statements, but a blatant risk the minute a cell door was shut on Durov, the autocrat with the keys to Telegram’s entire data kingdom.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• Like any capable autocrat, Jammeh exploited this to his advantage.
  — Jon Rosen, Slate Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
• When his term in office expired in 2015, Mr Barzani suspended parliament and ruled like an autocrat.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• Xi has played the gullible West with a skill that would have delighted his fellow autocrat, Joseph Stalin, who did much the same in the 1930s.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 18 June 2017
• One side of the coin being the reformer, the other side of the coin being the autocrat.
  — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2021
• But when the truth doesn’t make the autocrat look good, the truth-tellers have to be removed.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
• In the end, Spain’s new king in waiting didn’t want to become an autocrat.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• Biden did not take direct aim at Trump as a would-be autocrat.
  — Star Tribune, 2 May 2021
• The fragile ego of the disgraced autocrat couldn't handle this truth.
  — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• Putin the Bond villain, the mastermind spy, the autocrat who bestrides the world like a colossus.
  — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
• But critics think of him as something else: an autocrat, a diss only matched by the facts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
• Xi would not want to lose an ally and fellow autocrat like Putin.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• But, pressed on his next steps, the Russian autocrat was elusive.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
• For any autocrat, this is a strange way to reassert control.
  — Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2023
• The script surrounding the two autocrats’ confab is one of unity and umbrage with the West.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• Fighting has wracked Libya since the fall of former autocrat Moammar Khadafy a decade ago.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• Experts say such measures are not likely to be enough to convince the autocrat to turn around his tanks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Or the Speaker, Cameron Sexton, an autocrat, will not even call on you; will call the question and will cut off all debate.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2023
• But the Colts hadn’t made the playoffs since 1977 and Elway didn’t want to play for coach Frank Kush, who had a reputation as an autocrat.
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2021
• But what follows the fall of an autocrat isn’t always better.
  — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2024
• His tough talk -- the autocrat's calling card -- is also an emblem of his populist man-of-the-people bona fides.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• Milosevic, for those who don't know, is the Serbian autocrat who died in The Hague in 2006 while awaiting trial for war crimes.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• And the idea that a celebrity would actively want to turn themselves into a fascist autocrat was kind of a crazy idea.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 18 June 2024
• Republicans baselessly blamed Democrats for the shooting, and Biden and the Democrats went back to describing Trump as a liar and a felon and an aspiring autocrat.
  — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024