How to Use schoolmaster in a Sentence

schoolmaster

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  • The schoolmaster was tall and thin with a hunched back and a deep scowl on his gaunt face.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • The schoolmaster was soon detained and the school is shut down, maybe for good....
    — Monitor Editors, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2018
  • What does being the son of a schoolmaster have to do with anything?
    — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Both William and the schoolmaster then escorted the stoic George to his classroom.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2017
  • An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
  • To torment the village schoolmaster, the rantipoles sneak into his house and load his favorite pipe with gunpowder.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • His father, a schoolmaster, had died while his mother was still pregnant.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • The first enslaved African in Massachusetts was the property of the schoolmaster of Harvard.
    — The New York Review of Books, 25 Nov. 2018
  • Jesuits worked as schoolmasters in places like China, India, Brazil, the Congo.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2019
  • An aged schoolmaster, Dr. Wagner, sweet-natured and a bit of a bore, comes every day to tutor young Peter.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2016
  • Michelle Yeoh also plays a professor and Laurence Fishburne is the schoolmaster.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 16 Oct. 2022
  • That story begins with Will in Lancashire, working as a put-upon schoolmaster.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • After being prompted by his mom and dad to venture into the barn, Sabastian quickly returns, overcome with joy at the sight of Tom, the family's new 13-year-old schoolmaster pony.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 18 Oct. 2016
  • His rimless eyeglasses and charcoal sport coat gave him the air of a serious, but benevolent, schoolmaster.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • A seemingly ordinary 10-year-old boy of humble origins blows away the ogre-like village schoolmaster with his ability to add up a series of one hundred numbers in his head.
    — David Baker, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2012
  • The second figure was the schoolmaster himself, of which there were three types: grammatistes, who taught grammar; kitharistes, who taught music; and paidotribes, who taught physical education.
    — Raquel López, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • In addition, the theater has given Pugh an absolutely marvelous arena in which to recount the tale of eccentric schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the biggest fright of his life.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Paul Bettany plays Osborne, an older officer and former schoolmaster, admired by all, who’s called Sir by his subordinates and Uncle by his peers.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In the 1760s, an English schoolmaster named John Entick hacked trespass law, which previously only applied to citizens invading each other’s property, to constrain the government as well.
    — Bruce Schneier, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The former soldier and schoolmaster is presented here as careless, petty, monomaniacal, vainglorious, technophobic and, worst of all, bored by the lovely people and landscapes of Tibet.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Bertie’s stint as assistant schoolmaster under a family friend suited him better but ended when the school closed; another round of trials as apprentice pharmacist, draper, and trainee teacher followed.
    — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Just listen to the town’s venerable schoolmaster, or the dashing journalist from the big city, or the gnarly jail keeper, whose speech shifts regularly into wild, increasingly feral approximations of standard English.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Even more directly, Eliot the schoolmaster continues to influence students of literature.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019

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