How to Use dictatorship in a Sentence

dictatorship

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  • 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 group’s roots are in the era of military dictatorships.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But still, the end of a blatant narco-dictatorship means that, for the first time in 12 years, Hondurans can breathe a little bit easier.
    — Jared Olson, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Based on a true story, the film follows Eunice Paiva, a mother and activist resisting Brazil’s military dictatorship and the disappearances that went with it in the 1970s.
    — Cristina Escobar, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2025

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