Thesaurus / tyrannize

tyrannize

How to use tyrannize in a sentence

An old gentleman says, he is the last man in the world to tyrannize over a daughter's affections.

The opposition charged the government with a desire to subvert the constitution of Jamaica, and to tyrannize over the colonists.

Now, dear, you remember that I prophesied long ago that Mr. Meeks would tyrannize over you hand and foot, if you let him.

SOUTHERN HEARTSFLORENCE HULL WINTERBURN

After a period of that fearful ordeal when children tyrannize for romances that will not come, her mind grew mutinous and balked.

Have not you, you priests, in the West exalted yourselves to tyrannize over the consciences of your fellow-men?

AKBARP. A. S. VAN LIMBURG-BROUWER

What right has Britain to tyrannize on the ocean, and prescribe limits to our trade?

I thought that all servants would be afraid of me, and that all grown-up people would tyrannize over me.

Something had told him from the very beginning that he would not be able to tyrannize over this newcomer.

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

Old poisons that had spoiled his life in many ways and that he thought he had conquered crept back to tyrannize over him.

GREEN VALLEYKATHARINE REYNOLDS

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985