How to Use dictatorship in a Sentence

dictatorship

noun

• The country suffered for many years under his dictatorship.
• His enemies accused him of establishing a dictatorship.
• The dictatorship was so recent, that many people were hunting down those who dared to testify.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• Biden should be on his knees begging for immunity since his day is coming soon, as the Democratic dictatorship will be crumbling down.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
• Spain had exploded into a civil war that split opinion internationally and seemed bound to result in dictatorship by left or right.
  — John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• Those sites are blocked by the country’s dictatorship, but, by making use of virtual private networks, many Iranians have seen them anyway.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
• The Valley of the Fallen, a Catholic basilica and paean to the fascist dictatorship, still overlooks the capital.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• In 1964, the sixth year of the dictatorship, Juanita fled to the United States.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• Yet even if the Whites had won, their supreme ruler might well have imposed a dictatorship of his own.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• That sounds like some tin horn third world dictatorship.
  — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
• Because the dictatorship sees both the anthem and the flag as symbols of the opposition.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
• In Mullen’s view, the system that served the band well for so long has now become more of a benevolent dictatorship.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
• Twenty years later, the grip of the dictatorship remains tight.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• This would mark the first far-right surge in Spain's government since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in the 1970s.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 23 July 2023
• Her parents came to the U.S. in the 1960s, fleeing the communist dictatorship in Cuba.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
• The fishery itself is a parable of a dictatorship, Karamizade adds.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 28 June 2023
• People are standing up to the dictatorship, losing their fear — or throwing caution to the wind.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Nov. 2022
• Like the novel, the series aims to tell the history of a country that surrendered to dictatorship and the story of a man who was able to rise from the ashes time and time again.
  — Gianmaria Tammaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• Please, no more contrived hand-wringing and pearl-clutching about the Trump dictatorship.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
• The push to replace the current charter, which dates from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, came in response to a wave of social unrest in 2019.
  — Valentina Fuentes, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• But the coup was on the wane; after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. had stopped propping up quite so many military dictatorships, which are what tend to get militarily couped.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
• The last time a president declined to hand over the sash was in 1985, marking the end of the nation’s two-decade military dictatorship and the return of democracy.
  — Carla Bridi, ajc, 27 Dec. 2022
• More than three decades after the fall of the Duvalier family dictatorship in 1986, gangs and guns continue to rule a volatile Haiti.
  — Jacqueline Charles and, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• In 1970, when Pelé led Brazil to victory in the World Cup, some elites in the country worried that the title would strengthen the brutal military dictatorship that ruled at the time.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• The reason my older sister and I grew up in the States is because my parents fled a military dictatorship.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2023
• North Korea has been ruled as a hereditary dictatorship since its founding in 1948 by Kim Il Sung.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
• In ‘77, ‘78, the Sandinistas were trying to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
• The Chun Doo-hwan military junta, which would go on to rule South Korea as a dictatorship for the next eight years, had just seized power in a coup d’etat and declared martial law.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• One of my colleagues at AEI said that a full-fledged dictatorship would arise from these emergency powers unless there ...
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
• For most of the 20th century, political upheavals and dictatorships were common features in the region.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024