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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vladimir Putin has done more than any other leader to return Russia to those times of dictatorship.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
• 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 his ashes time and again.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 5 Apr. 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
• The last time martial law was declared in South Korea was in 1980, during an uprising against the country’s then-military dictatorship.
  — Sarah Whitmire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
• The day after Chun declared martial law in May 1980, students in opposition to the order took to the streets, staging demonstrations against military dictatorship in the southwestern city of Gwangju.
  — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024