How to Use tyrannical in a Sentence

tyrannical

adjective

• Everyone was afraid of their overbearing and tyrannical boss.
• The Pharaoh is the denier, the negater, the tyrannical figure in us.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• Rita Ora is also starring in the film as the tyrannical Queen of Hearts.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
• There’s something tyrannical about the one performance of a song that ends up on a record.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
• Those tyrannical beliefs in terms of how to deal with power.
  — Christopher Rosen, EW.com, 11 June 2017
• In fact, the new tyrant is likely to be still more tyrannical than the predecessor.
  — John C. (chuck) Chalberg, Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• The story tells of a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy that is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Belisarius.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2022
• Though he’d been dressed up as a general as a little boy, Mr. Kim hardly seemed to have the résumé to run a tyrannical regime.
  — John Lyons, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Daniels used his speech to denounce the tyrannical actions of Gov. Ducey in closing down the state during the pandemic.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• If only there had been any way for the Jaguars to have seen any tyrannical behavior coming.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Dec. 2021
• The school is run by a tyrannical headmaster who shouldn’t be missed when his wife and mistress, a teacher at the school, join forces to plot his murder.
  — Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
• In Sacramento, Thomas passed out fliers warning of the dangers of 10 bills the convoy deems tyrannical.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Mao's zealots, called the Red Guards, came to the traditional Uyghur homeland to enforce the brutal policies of the tyrannical regime.
  — Nury Turkel, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• The trio learns these villains are goons for the tyrannical bonobo Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand).
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• To try and raise someone’s consciousness too much is just as tyrannical as trying to hold it down.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 13 Nov. 2023
• Bastille Day, which falls on the 14th of July, celebrates the populist seizure of power from tyrannical rule.
  — Ryan Prior and Erin Davis, CNN, 13 July 2019
• Rebel Moon picks up at the edge of the galaxy, when a peaceful colony is threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2023
• From the start, Samantha seemed a willful child, in tyrannical need of attention.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Tyrannosaurs may have been just as tyrannical as their name implies.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021
• Plus the aiding and abetting of other tyrannical leaders of rogue states.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
• The Boss Baby *** Who needs a movie about a tyrannical infant - or an infantile tyrant?
  — Philly.com, 28 May 2017
• This is the place that spawned tyrannical sushi masters and ramen bullies who make their staff and customers tremble with a glare.
  — Zoe Li, CNN, 2 May 2023
• And Jack Nicholson's pitch-perfect as a patient locked in a battle of wills with a tyrannical nurse (Louise Fletcher).
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
• The story of eating donuts and other fried foods stems back to over 2100 years ago, when a group of Jews drove the tyrannical Greeks out of Jerusalem and took back control of their holy temple.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 28 Dec. 2019
• Paul was not a tyrannical father pushing his son like a martinet.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 25 Sep. 2017
• Odds were against them but those odds did not deter them from seeking freedom from the rule of what was a tyrannical government.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Apr. 2021
• His tyrannical rule is tempered only by Robin Hood, with a little help from his band of merry men.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• The previous four were felled by either tyrants or tyrannical mobs.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
• The guards became mean and tyrannical, the prisoners sad, angry and withdrawn.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
• Donning regal garb, bright orange hair, and wild makeup that would make the Joker proud, the two are tyrannical menaces ruling Rome with a lust for blood and very little sense.
  — EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024