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.
• 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
• The competition-is-for-losers set never let go of their dream of being autocrats of trade.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Though now seen as an autocrat, Erdogan didn’t start that way.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Vladimir Putin, the most vicious autocrat of this century, rules through tyranny and fear.
  — Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022
• But critics view him as an aspiring autocrat and fear a return to one-man rule.
  — Author: Rami Musa, Samy Magdy, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2019
• The second thing an autocrat fears is being ousted by those closest to him (witness the events in Kazakhstan this month).
  — Kathryn Stoner, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• There’s no moral victory against an autocrat; you just get written out of the next editions of the history books.
  — Garry Kasparov, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• But that could change: China’s autocrats may not be as clumsy for ever.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• The Egyptian regime stands very much with these autocrats and, like them all, would welcome Israel’s destruction of Hamas.
  — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2023
• Ukrainians, and the rest of us, have put up long enough with a world in which oil and gas prices are a weapon of dictators—or a point of self-celebration for a would-be autocrat.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2022
• Countries run by controlling autocrats go to great lengths to clamp down on the opposition and maintain the upper hand.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024