How to Use caudillo in a Sentence

caudillo

noun

• By now he was seen as a man of the right, sometimes a caudillo himself.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• In Latin America, the specter of the caudillo, or military leader, has made a comeback.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 May 2018
• Who would now prevent him from trampling, caudillo-like, over a Washington grown weak and decadent?
  — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 24 Mar. 2017
• Third, Chile lacks a populist movement, or a canny populist caudillo politician.
  — John Authers | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• The deal intends to shift TikTok’s cloud business to Oracle, which nevertheless doesn’t yet seem to have convinced the caudillo that a non-ownership deal is a good idea.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2020
• Between his daily fulminations against the press and his fondness for campaign pageantry, there’s something of the tropical caudillo about him.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• In late October, the eighty-two-year-old caudillo, a staunch U.S. ally in the battle against Communism, had fallen into a coma after a series of heart attacks.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• His fellow populist caudillos in Latin America are each in varying degrees of trouble.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• As the Cold War wound to an end, however, the dictatorships fell, and the caudillo generals retreated into the historical shadows.
  — Ioan Grillo, The New Republic, 6 June 2018
• Congressional Democrats are, of course, outraged: How dare this aspiring caudillo order a vehicle belonging to the government to be painted red, white, and blue!
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 June 2019
• Latin America is inured to strongmen and demagogues, but Bukele appears to be something new, a caudillo for the digital age intent on spreading his brand of populist politics across the region.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
• Some see him as a caudillo in the making: a strongman who will rule through the politics of personality and demolish institutions instead of reforming them.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 5 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024