How to Use headmaster in a Sentence
headmaster
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School was out for spring break and the school does not use the building for classrooms, according to the headmaster.
—Carol Robinson, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
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At some schools, headmasters have threatened to send names of staff members who didn’t vote to authorities.
—Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
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At some schools, headmasters have threatened to send names of students who didn't vote to authorities.
—Hamza Hendawi and Samy Magdy, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
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The boy's father came to the school and shot the headmaster to death, according to the newspaper clipping.
—Greg Garrison, AL.com, 15 Feb. 2018
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The next headmaster could be appointed by the summer of 2019, Smythe said in the statement.
—Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 25 Jan. 2018
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Here's the first trailer, showing off our first look at Jude Law as the eventual Hogwarts headmaster.
—Tom Philip, GQ, 13 Mar. 2018
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Patriots football coach JT Curtis serves as the school's headmaster.
—Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 27 Mar. 2018
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The leader of the replicated website is described as a headmaster, a title seldom used in America.
—Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
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In the show, Grande plays Blaine, an out gay high schooler who helps his friend Sebastian seduce their headmaster’s pious daughter.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2018
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He's since been known to sleep on the headmaster's desk and stroll through the halls.
—Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
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Gellar takes on the role of a headmaster at the school.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2022
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Koble would be the school's headmaster and one of the teachers.
—Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2022
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Even the headmaster, who had a son and a daughter, must know.
—Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
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The Tennessean said Koonce was the school's headmaster.
—Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
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The headmaster gathers the crowd of expectant teenagers in front of the school.
—Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022
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The school dinners, the headmaster explained, would not be cooked in the school canteen.
—Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
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In his office, the headmaster told the story again, Paul said.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 23 Mar. 2021
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Apparently, William, as a 17-year-old, went to the headmaster and went to bat for me.
—Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2022
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The Dirtybird headmaster is also about to hit the road on a 2018 summer/fall tour.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 July 2018
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This man is a busy doctor, but finds time to serve as headmaster of a samurai school.
—Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
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There was the lacrosse field, the brick dormitories, the unused chapel, the headmaster’s house.
—Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
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The headmaster punished Trayson by telling him to say sorry, while on his knees, Paul said.
—Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2021
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As the school’s headmaster, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, stresses over and over again, Drea has to be smarter than her wealthy peers.
—Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2022
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Gordonstoun's German headmaster, Kurt Hahn, was the one to break the news.
—Katie Frost, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
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If Teddy walks out, James will call the headmaster and complain.
—Seija Rankin, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2020
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Hale was a former student of the religious school, which Koonce has been the headmaster of since April 2016.
—Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
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It is set in a high school where students learn from the evil headmaster, a bear, that the only way to graduate is to kill a peer.
—New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
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Benjamin was in the headmaster’s position for less than five months and says he was forced out.
—Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
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The headmaster fled to Bangladesh soon after the August killing began.
—Fox News, 5 June 2018
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And who better to do it than a feared nazir, or headmaster, like Uncle Usama?
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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