How to Use dictatorship in a Sentence

dictatorship

noun
  • 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
  • In a dictatorship, the ruler often takes more spoils than the ruled.
    — Juliet Williams, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2020
  • In a dictatorship, the ruler often takes more spoils than the ruled.
    — Juliet Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • For the first time in 62 years of dictatorship, Cubans are, indeed, no longer afraid.
    — Fabiola Santiago, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • Led the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship of Cuba in 1959.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 22 July 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 author is quick to charge that the United States enabled the shah’s dictatorship.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • By the way, this is the playbook used by the noxious dictatorships that Trump so admires.
    — Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Fears of a return to dictatorship were overblown, the diplomats said.
    — Andre Paultre and Sarah Marsh, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2021
  • If the dictatorship has been good for black people — why?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 July 2021
  • For Tammy and me, there was a war in our parents’ country in 1950, and there was a dictatorship that arose out of that war.
    — Lauren Ro, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • So was the recording of the dictatorship’s brutal reply in the days that followed.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
  • By that August, the price of a SIM card had dropped to $1.50 from a high of about two thousand dollars during the dictatorship.
    — Doug Bock Clark, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The dictatorship has gone from father to son to grandson.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Even some Republicans appear to oppose the concept, likening it to the sort of maneuver one sees in dictatorships abroad.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 June 2025
  • Anyone familiar with the history of dictatorships might find this idea disingenuous.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025

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