How to Use tyranny in a Sentence

tyranny

noun

• 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
• The unchecked mobs of the 1930’s were tools used to produce tyranny.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• There, of course, the Pharaoh represented the tyranny of the British.
  — Steve Larkin, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022
• And some of them believe that the only way to fight tyranny is with force.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 Aug. 2017
• This mode will also free Ford from the tyranny of gas prices.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
• America would stand as one to help end the spread of tyranny.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• Someone had to stand up to the tyranny — to disturb it a little, or a lot.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
• President Biden made clear this week at the U.N. that the world should stop Putin’s tyranny.
  — ABC News, 25 Sep. 2022
• The game raises new questions about tyranny in the galaxy—and at home.
  — Yussef Cole, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
• The tyranny of the touchscreen: Tech in cars by the digits 1986: The year the Buick Rivera, the first car to feature a touchscreen, was released.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 11 May 2023
• That’s no worse a form of tyranny than rationing water on a lifeboat.
  — Sebastian Junger, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• In addition, the CIO must battle against the tyranny of the urgent.
  — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The world needs them, and not even all of them—just a select 53 percent willing to stand up to tyranny.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 13 Feb. 2018
• They are trapped in poverty by their culture, which is a form of tyranny.
  — Wanjiru Njoya, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024
• The days of tyranny of the minority are coming to an end.
  — WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
• Tyranny right now is in the schools and tyranny is in the medical business.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2021
• There might not be so much pressure, or the tyranny of desire.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
• Throwing off the shackles of tyranny often ends in new forms of bondage.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• The tyranny especially of the district court bench has to end.
  — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• So, here is the frontline–the tyranny, which has no lack of cruelty–against the lives of free people.
  — Quartz, 22 Dec. 2022
• At this gathering, no one cares whether the tyranny is red or black.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Oct. 2021
• The tyranny of the abstract leads to acute and frenzied suffering.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• For those who cleave to beauty's tyranny and are happy in its lair.
  — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2019
• The tale of the tyranny of the young and woke fell apart almost immediately.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022
• With the hope for a future free of tyranny at risk, will Katherine submit to the inevitable for the sake of King and country?
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 June 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 9 May 2024