How to Use strongman in a Sentence

strongman

noun

• Too often, tyrants believe in the myth of the strongman.
  — Daniel Twining, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• And, of course, the strongman isn’t one to play a supporting role.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• The strength of a civic government was no match for a strongman.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• Last but not least among the tools of the strongman is corruption.
  — Federico Finchelstein, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
• In the 2000s, the rise of a strongman — Putin — in the Kremlin was seen in pragmatic terms in Austria.
  — Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• Hifter, the strongman of the east Libya government, based in Benghazi.
  — Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2023
• Both were sent to the strongman’s religious court and sentenced to death.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• It’s a father figure, a strongman figure that attracts all of the orphan souls of the world.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• In Cambodia, Hun Sen, the strongman, has ruled since 1985.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
• The strongman praised the martial law era and in some ways emulated it with his bloody six-year war on drugs.
  — Michael E. Miller and Regine Cabato, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022
• More Republicans are adopting the kind of strongman rhetoric that seemed to play so well for Trump.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
• Many in the Philippines and Indonesia, for better or for worse, love a strongman.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
• But the pandemic has also scrambled the plans of those same strongmen.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• Venezuela’s strongman Nicolás Maduro uses the lingo of the American Left, which begins to sound like him.
  — Mike Gonzalez, National Review, 18 June 2022
• Molly — with her big eyes and modest dreams — and the way Ron Perlman’s strongman Bruno protects her.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
• This strongman rhetoric hides the fact that the whole declaration was a performance.
  — CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• But the current strongman, General Sisi, has pushed the country down to a new level.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
• In a 2008 election, Mohamed Nasheed toppled the longtime strongman ruler of the Maldives.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• But the provincial strongman has been in the crosshairs several times before.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• Sean Penn, that excellent actor, was a friend and backer of Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan strongman.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
• Yet the virus also brings potential perils for the strongmen.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• This mistrust, which also applies to the electoral process, could play into the hands of a strongman like Mr. Bolsonaro.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
• After the ouster of Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi in 2011, the country has been wracked by successive waves of civil war.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• Spider Tack, a super sticky substance used by strongman competitors, is the current rage and is in the league's cross hairs.
  — Star Tribune, 21 June 2021
• Instability has reigned in the North African country since the fall of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
  — Radina Gigova, CNN, 18 Jan. 2020
• Stoltman's older brother, Luke Stoltman, who is a strongman as well, encouraged him to go to the gym.
  — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2022
• So he was appalled when the strongman’s son emerged as the front-runner for president earlier this year.
  — Michael E. Miller and Regine Cabato, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022
• Breaking the rules, and getting away with it, is at the center of the ethos of macho lawlessness that underpins strongman rule.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The New York Review of Books, 12 Aug. 2020
• The trend toward rewarding strongmen continued with the election of Prabowo Subianto to the Indonesian presidency.
  — Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2024
• Washington may be tempted to wait out Erdogan before trying to reconcile with Ankara, but Turkey’s strongman still has at least four more years in power.
  — Asli Aydintasbas, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024