These parents do not indeed tyrannise over their children but they do worse; they train their children to be tyrants.
All which do give them an occasion totyrannise over their Fellow-Creatures, which they call their Inferiors.
To do to all men as we would they should do to us, and no otherwise: and as we would tyrannise over none, so we shall not suffer ourselves to be slaves to any whosoever.
See but with what rigour those jealous husbands tyrannise over their poor wives.
But there are other ways in which men tyrannise over men and in which Christ's redemption sets us free.
It is your own evil that is thus incarnated there, as it were, before you; and you have to subdue it, if it is not to tyrannise over you.
The greater tendency to assert freedom of action on the one side, corresponds to the smaller tendency to tyrannise on the other.
Passions tyrannise over mankind, but ambition keeps the others in abeyance, and makes for a while a man appear to possess every virtue.
Justice was administered fairly; the great were not allowed to tyranniseover the poor, nor the people to meet in tumultuous mobs; and the legions were regularly paid, so that they had no excuse for plundering the Egyptians.
But the rich, if the community gives them rank, very often endeavour to insult and tyrannise over others.
Everything goes to show that but for the Emperor's prudence his Flemings would have ruined him in Spain, by getting him to tyrannise for their gain, as Philip II later did for the Church's sake in the Netherlands.
You see no alternative but either to favour his inclinations or to resist them; to tyrannise or to wink at his misconduct; and both of these may lead to such dangerous results that one must indeed hesitate between them.
Judge for yourself whether the time when the eager senses disturb the understanding and tyrannise over the will, is the time to listen to the solemn lessons of wisdom.
The minister of truth does not tyrannise over my reason, he enlightens it.
Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives.
Outbreaks and civil wars give rulers rude shocks, but they are not the real ills of peoples, who may even get a respite, while there is a dispute as to who shall tyrannise over them.
The old Church endeavoured totyrannise over the State; under the influence of the Reformation the State tended to tyrannise over the Church.
But then, lest it should come (as it surely would) to tyrannise over the rest, it has been dethroned, and so in a later age the same quality is scouted and banned.
Falcons, that tyrannise o'er weaker fowl, Hold peace with their own feathers.
Well, do not tyrannise too much, lest one day he make you know his deity, by sending a shaft out of a sparkling eye shall strike so deep into your heart, that it shall make you fetch your breath short again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tyrannise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
