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Example sentences for "tyrannically"

Lexicographically close words:
tyran; tyranni; tyrannic; tyrannical; tyrannicall; tyrannicide; tyrannie; tyrannies; tyrannise; tyrannised
  1. How strange the calculation of that Jewish Rabbi,[1] who, dooming to miserable and eternal slavery all but his own little party, gives to every Jew two thousand eight hundred souls to be tormented and tyrannically used as slaves.

  2. You see this man, at the very time that he is a direct rebel to the Company, arbitrarily and tyrannically displacing Mr. Bristow, although he had previously joined in the approbation of his conduct, and in voting him a pecuniary reward.

  3. In Prussia the law tyrannically seizes every youth of twenty, and, no matter what his calling or profession, compels him to military service for seven years.

  4. All this they tyrannically robbed me of, and yet my owner, Wm.

  5. He behaved so tyrannically that many of the Hugonots were obliged to return to France, and of them he made the most malicious complaints, and concluded by saying, that they were heretics worthy of the stake.

  6. It is a law which dominates tyrannically all living beings, and it must cease to act and fall inert at the feet of Man, as if he were not merely a link inseparable from the great biological chain!

  7. Three kings who governed tyrannically or unwisely were curbed or deposed.

  8. Rosencrantz in the second act of Hamlet bears witness to the popularity of these boy actors, when he calls them "little eyases, that cry on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapped for it.

  9. With peasant marriages the seigneur could interfere even more tyrannically than with those of his feudal wards.

  10. This was followed by a series of solemn addresses; one to the king, expressing loyalty and affection; one to the people of Great Britain, showing how barbarously and tyrannically they had been treated by a corrupt administration, etc.

  11. If," he argued, "a law be exercised tyrannically in Virginia, to whom can you trust?

  12. Laws would not be "tyrannically executed" as the opposition feared; the "independency of your judges" would prevent that.

  13. Tyrannically held down by a strong hand"; product, falseness and meanness.

  14. I have been always tyrannically held down by the strong hand.

  15. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

  16. These decisions have often been apparently partial, and, sometimes, tyrannically oppressive.

  17. A short time since they pursued and killed a great queen, wife of Elingue, he who was left king of those kingdoms which the Christians had tyrannically seized and provoked to rise in the present rebellion.

  18. There is no rational conviction arrived at by sound labour of intellect, which so completely takes possession of the mind, subjugates so tyrannically its entire activity, and so irresistibly impels it to words and deeds, as delirium.

  19. She lifted her head toward the ceiling, but dropped it again, as if tyrannically awed downward, and bent it low over, till her whole form tremulously cringed to the floor.

  20. Since it is certain that you govern tyrannically and savagely, forbidding the preaching of the gospel and fleecing and oppressing the people, there is no comfort or hope for you but to perish as those like you have perished.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tyrannically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.