strongman
IPA: strˈɔŋmæn
noun
- Someone who performs feats of strength, sometimes in competitions or in a circus.
- A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.
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Examples of "strongman" in Sentences
- Return to strongman competition.
- The strongman equated to the Beast.
- Loss of unofficial strongman title.
- Tends to be the strongman of the trio.
- The logo of the Strongman Super Series.
- Morris the Strongman and Charlie the Clown.
- Kincaid is granted the ability of a strongman.
- He is seen as the department's political strongman.
- From then on it was in his blood to be a circus strongman.
- Proof that the odd strongman is often preferable to the alternative.
- The strongman demonstrates great strength, power and agility to the audience.
- Kremlin strongman Gordon Brown has once again shown the world that he's not a man to be messed with.
- The Latin American strongman, his blond wife at his side, addresses the enraptured masses from the balcony of a presidential palace.
- So the question of whether Bush should have installed a strongman is mute – it is like wondering what would happen if Bush could raise people from the dead.
- Adding his own twist to the Latin American strongman railing against American policies, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras began talking to journalists on Tuesday.
- Fresh from nationalizing almost every capitalist enterprise that yields a profit (or used to anyway), Latin American strongman Hugo Chávez has found a new class enemy: golf.
- But let’s step back for a moment: how far have we fallen when a leftist Latin American strongman is more persuasive in the international arena than the freaking President of the United States?
- He is no Baltasar Garzón, the flamboyant, media-hungry Spanish magistrate who sought the extradition of Chile's Augusto Pinochet on charges that the Latin American strongman had Spaniards tortured and killed — and who is now weighing a possible case against some top Bush administration lawyers who gave advice clearing the way for the alleged torture of terror suspects.