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Example sentences for "tyrannize"

Lexicographically close words:
tyrannies; tyrannise; tyrannised; tyrannises; tyrannising; tyrannized; tyrannizing; tyrannous; tyrannum; tyrannus
  1. Gods, you're unjust to tyrannize o'er me, When thousands fitter for't than I go free.

  2. Coward, whom nothing but thy power makes strong; Whom Age and Malice bred t'affright the young; Here thou dost tyrannize to that degree, That nothing but my Death will set me free.

  3. King James, without forfeiting the crown, might have been laid under such restrictions that it would not have been in his power to tyrannize over his subjects, either in spirituals or temporals.

  4. According to Napoleon, women tyrannize over us Americans, whereas we should tyrannize over them.

  5. No arguments can prove a right, in any man or any body of men, to tyrannize over my conscience.

  6. There are women whom you may tyrannize over one week, and cajole the next, amiable enough to accept both positions with equanimity; but the haughty Countess was not of these Griseldas.

  7. The nobles, accustomed to tyrannize by force, had to accept the foreign tyranny, when it showed itself stronger than their own.

  8. Besides this is a wretched race, who have no weapons, so that the Spaniards tyrannize over them at will.

  9. I shall tyrannize over you frightfully, and you will like it.

  10. John, reduced to this abject situation under a foreign power, still showed the same disposition to tyrannize over his subjects, which had been the chief cause of all his misfortunes.

  11. We cannot say this of any tribunal; fenced in the name of them that tyrannize over us.

  12. Were it the act of rational creatures to set up a sovereign, upon conditions he shall not play the tyrant, and yet be bound to him though he tyrannize never so much?

  13. Within me is a hell; and there the poison Is as a fiend confin'd to tyrannize On unreprievable condemned blood.

  14. Well, well, I made thee miserable What time I threw the people's suffrages On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me.

  15. This poor right hand of mine Is left to tyrannize upon my breast; Who, when my heart, all mad with misery, Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh, Then thus I thump it down.

  16. Do we not see how long we deprive all our friends of their liberty, and give Caius leave still to tyrannize over them?

  17. He had been left by Cassius to tyrannize over Tyre; for this Cussiris was a man that seized on Syria, and then kept it under, in the way of a tyrant.

  18. Thus all the eight brethren, four men and four women, consulted together how they could tyrannize over other tribes beyond the place where they lived, and they proposed to do this by violence.

  19. Those in the neighbourhood of Cuzco had risen to defend themselves from the orejones Incas of Cuzco who had made war to tyrannize over them.

  20. How the Incas began to tyrannize over the lands and inheritances XI.

  21. After some months they returned to the attack on the natives of the valley, to tyrannize over them.

  22. To abolish the supremacy of the State before all men have become true Christians would only afford the wicked a chance to tyrannize over the good and maltreat them with impunity," say the upholders of the existing order.

  23. If the present should not make one forget the past, neither should the past tyrannize over the present.

  24. How much have those magistrates and sheriffs to answer for who suffer these devils in human shape to tyrannize over and torture the victims consigned to their custody!

  25. He did not act, as if he felt it to be his only business to tyrannize over, to harrass, to oppress, to punish, and to torture those unfortunate persons who were committed to his custody.

  26. It neither dogmatizes nor attempts to tyrannize by compelling to a particular creed or special interpretation.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tyrannize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bend; break; browbeat; bully; castrate; coerce; compel; conquer; cow; crush; daunt; domineer; enslave; grind; humble; humiliate; intimidate; master; oppress; overawe; overmaster; override; overwhelm; persecute; push; quell; railroad; reduce; repress; ride; subdue; subjugate; suppress; terrorize; tyrannize; unman