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.
• In 1964, the sixth year of the dictatorship, Juanita fled to the United States.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• And so Syrians who risked their lives to fight against the regime see Russia as kind of the source of the dictatorship.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
• 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 downfall of the dictatorship in Tehran would be a particular boon — to the whole world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
• The dictatorship in Beijing is a curse upon the world, and a curse upon the Chinese.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 July 2022
• So was the recording of the dictatorship’s brutal reply in the days that followed.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
• Many Georgians now say that the country is on the verge of one-party dictatorship.
  — Christian Caryl, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024
• 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
• His family held it for most of the next four decades in a brutal dictatorship.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
• 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
• These are not the kind of sanctions that are needed to stop the war in Ukraine and ultimately defeat Putin's dictatorship.
  — Opinion By: Roman Badanin, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
• That’s a tall, naive order, changing the tabloid industry without the aid of a dictatorship.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Like the novel, the series will 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 again.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2022
• 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
• These were the years of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, but the tension also lived closer to home.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Were millions of Ukrainians starved to death under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin?
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• Some once-aspiring democracies are now dictatorships by choice of an electorate—the most egregious case being Russia, and to a lesser degree in Hungary and Turkey.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
• That dictatorship was controlled by the military, but this one would have been more firmly entrenched by combining the military with the judiciary.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025