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.

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