Want to use Dictator correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like speaker or authoritarian.
Dictator in a sentence
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Dictator meaning
- A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
- A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the Senate, typically to conduct a war.
- A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
Synonyms of Dictator
Example sentences (20)
A successful reserve currency is based on trust, and most market actors won’t trust their wealth to a fickle dictator.
In October 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo oversaw a week-long extermination campaign along the border.
Donations to Palestinian terrorists were also made by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and Libyan tyrant Muammar Qaddafi.
Bukele has largely dismissed those concerns, at one point changing his profile on X to say: “World’s coolest dictator”.
Hunter later fell out with Kim after sending him a picture of his penis intended for the dictator’s sister, Kim Yo Jong.
Our leaders reject this but circumvent it and tell us our only alternative is the fascist Trump who would be a dictator.
All of Trump’s comments suggest he, too, would bend to an expansion-minded dictator, Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
If they go back, many of those opposed to Europe’s "last dictator" would face arrest, imprisonment or worse.
Just as the Roman Emperors knew to give the proles bread and circuses, so too does Victoria’s very own dictator Dan Andrews.
The Fox News producer who aired the “wannabe dictator” graphic has spoken out about leaving the network.
A video shows the Russian dictator on stage addressing supporters at a meeting in Moscow as the bodyguard stands in the wings.
Former Indonesian dictator Suharto, seen here with then-Australian PM Paul Keating in 1994, was a believer in the supernatural.
Trump became the first sitting US President to meet with a dictator of North Korea when he shook hands with Kim Jong Un in 2019.
Could “” have been an eerily prophetic inculpation of the Georgian revolutionary and future dictator?
Budanov has been called the man Putin most wants to assassinate due his success in scoring painful blows on the dictator's forces.
In Libya — thrown into chaos since the fall of dictator Muammar Qadhafi in 2011 — artisans complain of a crippling lack of support.
A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people’s love of liberties.
Good thing no one ever thinks Biden and his administration act as though he is a dictator, right?
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The party came to power after the 2011 revolution because it amassed a strong following as an underground party under dictator Ben Ali.
Common combinations with dictator
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the dictator 25×
- dictator and 14×
- be dictator 11×
- as dictator 8×
- dictator on 8×
- of dictator 7×
- dictator who 7×
- dictator in 7×
- dictator of 6×
- dictator is 5×
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