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
• Drew must fight to abolish the tyranny of the Lion lords and reclaim the throne.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
• And some of them believe that the only way to fight tyranny is with force.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 Aug. 2017
• Yet there is today a very real threat of a tyranny in the vein of James.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• That is not tyranny; that is a fair measure of the will of the citizens.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2024
• This mode will also free Ford from the tyranny of gas prices.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
• When faced with the tyranny of the blank page, people are going to push The Button.
  — Ethan Mollick, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The best example of a collective community, coming together to stand up against tyranny, is in the Nassar case.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
• It's mainly made up of former and current law enforcement, former and current military, and these people see themselves as the last line of defense against government tyranny.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024