How to Use dictatorship in a Sentence

dictatorship

noun

• The country suffered for many years under his dictatorship.
• His enemies accused him of establishing a dictatorship.
• The downfall of the dictatorship in Tehran would be a particular boon — to the whole world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
• Bolsonaro, who has spoken fondly about the dictatorship, has also sought to make clear that the military answers to him.
  — Jack Nicas, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
• Back then, Brazil was emerging from a 21-year military dictatorship.
  — Andrew Downie, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2022
• Bolsonaro has spoken positively of the dictatorship in the past.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 13 June 2022
• Nicaraguans have fled to Costa Rica to escape their country’s dictatorship.
  — Courtney Subramanianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• This is one good reason, among many, to doubt whether the 2024 election will usher in a right-wing millennium, never mind a fascist dictatorship.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
• In 1964, the sixth year of the dictatorship, Juanita fled to the United States.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• Yet even if the Whites had won, their supreme ruler might well have imposed a dictatorship of his own.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• The dictatorship in Beijing is a curse upon the world, and a curse upon the Chinese.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 July 2022
• Or in the case of this shovel-as-rifle business, the topic is the oddness of life in Belarus, a dictatorship a mere 150 miles to the north.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• That sounds like some tin horn third world dictatorship.
  — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
• Because the dictatorship sees both the anthem and the flag as symbols of the opposition.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
• In Mullen’s view, the system that served the band well for so long has now become more of a benevolent dictatorship.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
• The show’s version of the tastemaking store and brand Supreme, for instance, is a vibe dictatorship called Latrine.
  — Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• Twenty years later, the grip of the dictatorship remains tight.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• This would mark the first far-right surge in Spain's government since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in the 1970s.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 23 July 2023
• Her parents came to the U.S. in the 1960s, fleeing the communist dictatorship in Cuba.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
• In a world of adults, Celeste works through her changes while the country rocks between the dictatorship and the return to democracy.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
• The fishery itself is a parable of a dictatorship, Karamizade adds.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 28 June 2023
• People are standing up to the dictatorship, losing their fear — or throwing caution to the wind.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Nov. 2022
• Like the novel, the series aims to tell the history of a country that surrendered to dictatorship and the story of a man who was able to rise from the ashes time and time again.
  — Gianmaria Tammaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• Please, no more contrived hand-wringing and pearl-clutching about the Trump dictatorship.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
• The push to replace the current charter, which dates from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, came in response to a wave of social unrest in 2019.
  — Valentina Fuentes, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• The Valley of the Fallen, a Catholic basilica and paean to the fascist dictatorship, still overlooks the capital.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• But the coup was on the wane; after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. had stopped propping up quite so many military dictatorships, which are what tend to get militarily couped.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
• The last time a president declined to hand over the sash was in 1985, marking the end of the nation’s two-decade military dictatorship and the return of democracy.
  — Carla Bridi, ajc, 27 Dec. 2022
• More than three decades after the fall of the Duvalier family dictatorship in 1986, gangs and guns continue to rule a volatile Haiti.
  — Jacqueline Charles and, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• In 1970, when Pelé led Brazil to victory in the World Cup, some elites in the country worried that the title would strengthen the brutal military dictatorship that ruled at the time.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024