Sample Sentences fortyranny (editor-reviewed)
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The U.S. constitution was designed with checks and balances and limited government to protect Americans from tyranny.tyranny = a form of government where some people control others in a harsh, unfair manner
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Pure democracy (without protection of minority rights) can become tyranny of the majority.
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For some reason, my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship: Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval. (source)tyranny = harsh control
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It has been horrid---the tyranny we've suffered at the hands of that woman! (source)tyranny = harsh and unjust rule
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Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority.† (source)
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Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny.† (source)
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But all the tyranny in the world will never put a God in the heavens!† (source)
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But at least Arobynn had an excuse for being equal parts tyrannical and doting.† (source)
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The police had questioned him several times, and just a few days before, he had heard that an influential acquaintance, a Mr Tanaka a retired officer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line, an anti-Christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies and notorious for his personal tyrannies, had been telling people that Tanimoto should not be trusted.† (source)
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You, my Lord, In being with us, would fight a good stroke At once, for England and for Home, Ending the tyrannous jurisdiction Of king's court over bishop's court, Of king's court over baron's court.† (source)
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He says I have tyrannized over everyone.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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My wife and I respect ourselves and one another too much ever to tyrannize or quarrel.† (source)
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AND CAN I THEN BUT PRAY OTHERS MAY NEVER FEEL TYRANNIC SWAY?† (source)
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I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.† (source)
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I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but ... there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it tyrannize.
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I have never in my life been able to imagine any other sort of love, and have nowadays come to the point of sometimes thinking that love really consists in the right—freely given by the beloved object—to tyrannise over her.† (source)
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