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
  • Sudan’s women have had the most to gain since the fall of a dictatorship in 2019.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • My father was just one of the 10% of Uruguayans who fled the country during the 12-year dictatorship.
    — Lola Méndez, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • For the first time since the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, right wing parties will control half of the senate.
    — Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Bringing an end to the dictatorship cannot wait until 2024.
    — Eddy Acevedo, National Review, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The brutal, three-decade-long dictatorship of the Duvaliers fueled some of the first major waves of Haitian refugees and migrants to the United States.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The younger three chafe under her stern kitchen dictatorship and policing of swearing.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The doc will explore the traces of time in the history of a family from the Catalan city of Vic and Spain under Franco’s dictatorship.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The breakdown of democracy in the United States will not give rise to a classic dictatorship in which elections are a sham and the opposition is locked up, exiled, or killed.
    — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
  • When Johnson Sirleaf came to power, in 2006, Liberia had been wracked by more than a decade of civil war, a military dictatorship, and chronic poverty.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025

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