TYRANNICAL in a Sentence

Learn TYRANNICAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

18 example sentences for TYRANNICAL, such as:

1. I have nothing to speak to that tyrannical government.
2. Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.
3. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
4. Tell your tyrannical master, I do only beseech him to dismiss the Lady Rowena in honour and safety.
5. It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of TYRANNICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tyrannical
 a.  dictatorial; domineering; authoritarian
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing, all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  It rose, in silent terrors, to the minds of the servants, who well knew the unfeeling, tyrannical character of the mistress in whose hands they were left.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  It is a common remark, and one that is thought to militate strongly against the character of the race, that the negro overseer is always more tyrannical and cruel than the white one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Boisterous, unruly, and tyrannical, he despised all her counsel, and would none of her reproof; and, at an early age, broke from her, to seek his fortunes at sea.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so, especially to nervous gentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent for teaching than Dr. Blimber.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
6  Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long: Joseph and I were the only two that would stay.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  If they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings; if they worked hard, at least they worked for themselves.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  Tell your tyrannical master, I do only beseech him to dismiss the Lady Rowena in honour and safety.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  Of course the children tyrannized over her, and ruled the house as soon as they found out that kicking and squalling brought them whatever they wanted.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
13  Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gallantly defended her from every other aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
14  But, as time, and debasing influences, and despair, hardened womanhood within her, and waked the fires of fiercer passions, she had become in a measure his mistress, and he alternately tyrannized over and dreaded her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
Example Sentence:
1  I have nothing to speak to that tyrannical government.
2  Yet school, which should have been a refuge, is also treacherous terrain for Matilda; its headmistress, is formidable, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of pupils.