How to Use tyrant in a Sentence

tyrant

noun

• Our boss is a real tyrant.
• The tyrant dies and his rule is over.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
• All kings and tyrants fail in the end.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant.
  — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Mar. 2026
• In the end, no tyrant ever wins at that.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
• Trump is no king, much less a dictator or a tyrant.
  — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
• The tyrant comes for everyone in the end.
  — Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• Killing the tyrant doesn’t assure the tyranny will end.
  — Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
• Jersey, a single mom, isn’t a tyrant.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
• That kind of thing works with tyrants, works with Kim Jong-Un.
  — NBC News, 30 June 2019
• At rallies, he has been portrayed as Hitler and called a tyrant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
  — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
• Even in the 21st century, tyrants still have their fan clubs.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• So, the politicians must do more than push back against the White House tyrant.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
• Trump said the longtime tyrant ran to open a heavy door leading to a safe room but couldn’t manage it.
  — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
• The former president has called the judge a tyrant and a devil.
  — ABC News, 2 June 2024
• History’s smallest tyrants are hard to please.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
• 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
• His son Bashar took power, and in time proved to be an even more vicious tyrant than his father.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• Among those tyrants is Grigori Rasputin (played by Rhys Ifans).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2019
• This frees up Hope to be a tyrant to the wedding planning committee.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• And this is probably the fatal mistake of the tyrant who attacked us.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
• Was Rizzo a jackbooted tyrant who went out of his way to punish blacks and gays?
  — David Gambacorta, Philly.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• The urge to act the tyrant has been proven too strong for many government officials to resist.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• Not that Eisenhower, to be fair, is presented here as quite such a tyrant.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 May 2026
• McDaniel has never been a screamer or a tyrant like some old-school coaches.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
• 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
• His father, Raymond, was a steel magnate and something of a tyrant.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• 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