How to Use dictator in a Sentence

dictator

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  • The country was ruled by a military dictator.
  • Who is clever and cunning and evil enough to take out the dictator of the Kang Dynasty?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • An ashen corpse drops to the ground, and the dictator moves on with ease, ready to discuss war tactics with his men.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Yes to Ukraine, as the US needs to protect countries from dictators like Putin.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The mission to capture the capital and topple the Iraqi dictator hung in the balance.
    — William Branigin, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • When a power-drunk ape goes bananas and starts acting more and more like a dictator, a young ape emerges on the scene.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The trains used by Kim are said to have 10 to 15 carriages, many of which are designed only for use by the dictator himself.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • So is Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator over in Belarus.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Aug. 2023
  • By Valerie Trapp What is the correct distance from which to film a dictator?
    — Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
  • One of his first and most daunting tasks, Mr. Cupi said, was to somehow get rid of a 22-ton marble statue of the dictator in the main hall.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Czech dictator Klement Gottwald stands alone in a small grove, the blood-red paint still as fresh on his hands as if daubed on yesterday.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Alexander Lukashenko is still a dictator for life, while latched firmly to Vladimir Putin and Russia.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
  • Well, don’t forget Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Xi made his decision in the service of grander plans: The two dictators would make history.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2023
  • Libya has been embroiled in civil war since the ouster of former dictator Moammar Gaddafi during the Arab Spring.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The dictator's third child has also never been seen in public.
    — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Oil-rich Libya has been ravaged by conflict since the fall of its longtime dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, in 2011.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • By the time that story begins, Paul has secured his place as dictator of the universe, though he’s made quite a few enemies in the process.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Under the dictator's five-year plans, the Russians had achieved very uneven results.
    — Robert Gale Woolbert, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Latin America has had dictators to spare, yet El Conde is the rare film that gives one the satirical treatment.
    — Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Pro-democracy protests led to the fall of Suharto, the dictator who ruled Indonesia for more than three decades and was once Mr. Prabowo’s father-in-law.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • When people are connected to each other, and to all the information in the world, how could any dictator keep them down?
    — Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • This, of course, includes Alfredo Stroessner, the right-wing dictator who ruled Paraguay for more than three decades in the 20th century.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 1 May 2023
  • Such systems create military power that is more adaptable and less prone to the whims of a dictator.
    — Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 29 June 2023
  • Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, has a new public-relations outfit working for him, and this one has a direct line to the White House.
    — wsj.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Bukele’s bio on X no longer mentions anything about being a dictator.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • There was no Japanese equivalent of the Nazi Party, and no dictator like Hitler.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The plan fell apart after Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was deposed in 2011.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The basis for the war was the Bush administration's faulty assessment that the dictator had weapons of mass destruction.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Trump has denied his rhetoric has any association to dictators in the past.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023

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