How to Use tyrant in a Sentence

tyrant

noun

• Our boss is a real tyrant.
• 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
• Maybe Bell was a screaming tyrant away from the spotlight.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2021
• At rallies, he has been portrayed as Hitler and called a tyrant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Xi wants the same thing that every power-mad tyrant wants.
  — Thérèse Shaheen, National Review, 3 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And this is probably the fatal mistake of the tyrant who attacked us.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
• The urge to act the tyrant has been proven too strong for many government officials to resist.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• His father, Raymond, was a steel magnate and something of a tyrant.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• The dedication was made by one Thefarie Velianas, who ruled as tyrant of the nearby city of Caere.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
• However, to find the walking speed of the T. rex, the researchers of the new study focused on the vertical movement of the tyrant lizard king's tail.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2021
• Things only get wilder as the song oozes on, with Eilish taking on the role of some kind of child tyrant in a suburban dystopia.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
• Other folks, like the NextDoor tyrants who assume the very worst about each one of us on an afternoon walk, need to take a deep, masked breath.
  — Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 27 May 2020
• This is exactly what their dad wants, of course: A tyrant divides and conquers.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2021
• The film grows increasingly far-fetched and silly as the squad attempts to pull off a coup on a brutal tyrant.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• Outside the sidewalk, Jones called the trial a kangaroo court and Bellis a tyrant.
  — Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2022
• In fact, the new tyrant is likely to be still more tyrannical than the predecessor.
  — John C. (chuck) Chalberg, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• The compulsion to act the tyrant isn’t confined to high rollers at expensive restaurants.
  — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada Victoria Petro-Conroy, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Democrats have rarely objected as long as the tyrant-in-chief is progressive-approved.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• American owners of teams do not act as proxies for the government or serve as the power base for a tyrant.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Only tyrants and dictators feel the need to silence critics.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2019
• My father was still a tyrant, still terrified me, but my friends were kind, encouraging me to go back to school.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024