How to Use dictatorship in a Sentence

dictatorship

noun
  • The country suffered for many years under his dictatorship.
  • His enemies accused him of establishing a dictatorship.
  • Venezuela has been ruled by a dictatorship for more than a decade.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
  • This is the path to a dictatorship.
    — Meg Kinnard, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In a dictatorship, the ruler often takes more spoils than the ruled.
    — Juliet Williams, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2020
  • This is not a dictatorship in the classic sense.
    — Alejandro Reyes, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Only the pigs take over with a dictatorship.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The dictatorship is still an open scar in our Brazilian life.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But the truth is, these absolute dictatorships tend to be alike.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Yet even if the Whites had won, their supreme ruler might well have imposed a dictatorship of his own.
    — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Fears of a return to dictatorship were overblown, the diplomats said.
    — Andre Paultre and Sarah Marsh, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2021
  • His family held it for most of the next four decades in a brutal dictatorship.
    — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Anything is possible with a regime in charge that’s sort of like a dictatorship.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • No, a dictatorship is not the same as democracy.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
  • Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • The younger three chafe under her stern kitchen dictatorship and policing of swearing.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2021
  • For the first time in 62 years of dictatorship, Cubans are, indeed, no longer afraid.
    — Fabiola Santiago, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • That's what happens in a dictatorship.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That’s what happens in a dictatorship.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Ellen calls what’s coming a dictatorship.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Many Georgians now say that the country is on the verge of one-party dictatorship.
    — Christian Caryl, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024
  • By the way, this is the playbook used by the noxious dictatorships that Trump so admires.
    — Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
  • As the series continues, the twins find their parents, grow up, fall in love and fight dictatorship.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • So was the recording of the dictatorship’s brutal reply in the days that followed.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Twenty years later, the grip of the dictatorship remains tight.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Inés, the lead character, was born in the final years of the dictatorship.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
  • People are losing their fear, rising up against the dictatorship that has ruled them for 26 years.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Sudan’s women have had the most to gain since the fall of a dictatorship in 2019.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2021

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