tyrannise

How To Use tyrannise In A Sentence

• The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
• Fear makes our imagination conceive what it list, invites the devil to come to us, as [1667] Agrippa and Cardan avouch, and tyranniseth over our phantasy more than all other affections, especially in the dark. Anatomy of Melancholy
• And Letwin was happy to defend Blunkett, saying: ‘I do not think it would be right to accuse the government of trying to tyrannise the citizen’.
• Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality.
• She was too gentle to tyrannize over her playfellow, yet she had ruled him abjectly, except when in canoe, or on horse or surf-board, at which times he had taken charge and she had rendered obedience. ALOHA OE
• Antifederalists feared that a powerful national government might tyrannize the people and displace the important power of self-government they associated with state government.
• Our youth love luxury, they contradict their parents, gobble up dainties from the table, and tyrannise their teachers.
• On one hand, he invites us to laugh at a group of hopeless stumblebums tyrannised by their supposedly defenceless victim.
• So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
• Policemen, teachers, civil servants, owners of small family businesses—the baker, the butcher, the florist—who felt tyrannized by regulations and taxes and saw immigrants from Morocco and Turkey both as competitors (with small shops that could sell cheaper goods because they hired cheap, illegal workers) and as bad employees (unpunctual and disrespectful slackers who could not speak proper Dutch). Nomad