martinet

Example Sentences

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Bedecked in a three-piece suit and gripping a baseball bat in his hands, he struck the stance of a martinet for a portrait that ran on the cover of Time magazine in 1988.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2020

In comparison, Schultz comes off as less of a martinet and more of a prig in the trial transcripts.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2020

Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019

Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018

I don’t think this is too strictly enforced except when the place is run by an obsessive martinet like Amadeus von Linden.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein