DESPOT in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for DESPOT, such as:

1. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being a despot.
2. Paris without a king has as result the world without despots.
3. Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius.
4. Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms.
5. That mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that frail despot.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESPOT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
despot
 n.  tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler; eastern Orthodox bishop
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  That mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that frail despot.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
2  Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and summing up a revolution.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
3  There has not been a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, approved, counter-signed, and copied, ne variatur, the partition of Poland.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his own thing, his own despot and his slave.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTE...
5  Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it desires; force is a great weakness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
7  They all ran out to the front porch and saw the tall grizzled old despot of Aunt Pitty's house climbing down from a rat-tailed nag on which a section of quilting had been strapped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  Like machines, they dumbly moved about the deck, ever conscious that the old man's despot eye was on them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
9  My mother never could endure him, nor I; but he obtained an entire ascendency over my father; and this man was the absolute despot of the estate.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Then Robespierre was beheaded for being a despot.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
11  I admit that Russia has its beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
12  Paris without a king has as result the world without despots.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
13  Chion and Leonidas of Heraclea, disciples of Plato, conspired against the despots Clearchus and Satirus.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
14  And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever -- there was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow.
2  Eight years later, after a photoshoot with Erdogan, Turkey's despotic president, and a humiliating World Cup exit, Mr Ozil has become a national scapegoat.
3  Ever since he destroyed Hitler's despotism, our political leaders haven't needed to be giants.
4  Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.
5  Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms.