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
• The two laugh and shake hands after the Icelandic strongman sets him back on his feet.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Both have ties to strongmen and a taste for tariffs and fossil fuels.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
• The half-mortal strongman must become a hero to rejoin the gods on Mount Olympus.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The general can either go along with them, or go the way of other strongmen.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• 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
• From Russia to the Philippines to Saudi Arabia, strongmen seem to be calling the shots.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Some of the worst massacres in modern history have followed the ouster of strongmen.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 12 July 2018
• This strongman rhetoric hides the fact that the whole declaration was a performance.
  — CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• City staff had to keep all this a secret since January, when the film crew and four strongmen came to the city for several days.
  — Kim Hyatt, Twin Cities, 3 July 2019
• 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
• Dephree,’’ did various dances and the strongman pose as traffic backed up for miles on State Route 110.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• 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
• Attunement to the longing for an all-knowing strongman who ensures safety helps sharpen the warnings about his abuses and violations.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025