How to Use tyrant in a Sentence

tyrant

noun

• Our boss is a real tyrant.
• That kind of thing works with tyrants, works with Kim Jong-Un.
  — NBC News, 30 June 2019
• In the film, Ferrell's Lord Business is a tyrant in the Lego world.
  — Terry Terrones, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• In Sudan mass protests led to the ejection of Omar al-Bashir, one of the world’s vilest tyrants.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• The loss of the Awl Network is a gain for the tyrant of centralization.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 18 Jan. 2018
• Maybe Bell was a screaming tyrant away from the spotlight.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2021
• Even in the 21st century, tyrants still have their fan clubs.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• At rallies, he has been portrayed as Hitler and called a tyrant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Among those tyrants is Grigori Rasputin (played by Rhys Ifans).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2019
• Xi wants the same thing that every power-mad tyrant wants.
  — Thérèse Shaheen, National Review, 3 Dec. 2023
• The former president has called the judge a tyrant and a devil.
  — ABC News, 2 June 2024
• The story of revolting against a tyrant no longer fits.
  — Jeremy Andrus, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• The top dog is a foil in the underdog’s story — a tyrant to be toppled and a bully to stand up to.
  — Jeremy Andrus, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Her school is run by a child-hating tyrant, Miss Trunchbull.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2020
• She is taught by a tyrant of a taskmaster, Kuroda (who else?) in modern dress.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019
• This is what a tyrant looks like: small, and full of tedious resentments.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
• But the Jesuits have outlived their usefulness to the 77-year-old tyrant.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2023
• That’s why the first thing that all tyrants do is disarm the people, just like Chavez did when he was first elected.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
• Larry is a tyrant who rules over a vast empire, in this case a thousand-acre farm in Iowa.
  — Dinitia Smith, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• By the end of that decade, it was widely thought that the web would be an ally of democracy and a slayer of tyrants.
  — Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
• The refugee parent fleeing from the tyrant regime loses family all at once, in the space of a five-hour flight to Qatar.
  — Suketu Mehta, Time, 17 Sep. 2021
• In their eyes, India is a tyrant occupier, ruling with the might of the gun.
  — Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2017
• And this is probably the fatal mistake of the tyrant who attacked us.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
• But the wannabe tyrant, easily fooled out of his newfound power, isn’t one to strike fear in the hearts of men and hobbits.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 7 Apr. 2018
• The urge to act the tyrant has been proven too strong for many government officials to resist.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• Was Rizzo a jackbooted tyrant who went out of his way to punish blacks and gays?
  — David Gambacorta, Philly.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• His father, Raymond, was a steel magnate and something of a tyrant.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Liu Xiaobo and others who stand up against the tyrants love China and the Chinese people.
  — The Editors, National Review, 13 July 2017
• These days, Tell is mainly remembered for a single scene: When the Austrian tyrants force him to test his marksmanship by shooting an apple from his own son’s head.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024