How to Use tyranny in a Sentence

tyranny

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  • The refugees were fleeing tyranny.
  • The king sought an absolute tyranny over the colonies.
  • He was dedicated to ending the tyranny of slavery.
  • She felt lost in the bureaucratic tyrannies of the university system.
  • There’s the tyranny of clean and, atop that, the specter of reproach.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
  • And some of them believe that the only way to fight tyranny is with force.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 Aug. 2017
  • America would stand as one to help end the spread of tyranny.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The days of tyranny of the minority are coming to an end.
    — WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The tyranny especially of the district court bench has to end.
    — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • This mode will also free Ford from the tyranny of gas prices.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
  • Throwing off the shackles of tyranny often ends in new forms of bondage.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Tyranny right now is in the schools and tyranny is in the medical business.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The game raises new questions about tyranny in the galaxy—and at home.
    — Yussef Cole, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
  • That’s no worse a form of tyranny than rationing water on a lifeboat.
    — Sebastian Junger, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • The tale of the tyranny of the young and woke fell apart almost immediately.
    — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Someone had to stand up to the tyranny — to disturb it a little, or a lot.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
  • There might not be so much pressure, or the tyranny of desire.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
  • At this gathering, no one cares whether the tyranny is red or black.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Oct. 2021
  • To our refusal as women to accept this new age of tyranny.
    — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 23 Jan. 2017
  • To hell with the aesthetic tyranny of chilly modernism!
    — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2018
  • For those who cleave to beauty's tyranny and are happy in its lair.
    — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2019
  • An informed public is the best form of defense against tyranny.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The beauty and the tyranny of reinvention is that no one can tell you what is meaningful to you.
    — Julie Jungalwala, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Could the tyranny of the blah, stuffy tuxedo finally be coming to an end?
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • There, of course, the Pharaoh represented the tyranny of the British.
    — Steve Larkin, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The tyranny of the sun’s role in marking midday meant that states had multiple times.
    — Time, 18 Nov. 2019
  • His work fighting the Nazis counted for nothing in this new tyranny.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • Like the opposite of the tyranny so many of our neighbors fled Cuba to escape?
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 9 July 2018
  • The leader said victory over tyranny and the number of those saved depends on the West.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Roth was an outraged witness to tyranny, which led him to exile, and his books to the bonfire.
    — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022

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