schoolmaster

Example Sentences

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The Post likened him to Ichabod Crane, the fictional schoolmaster in the Washington Irving short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Her mother was born the daughter of a Methodist schoolmaster but was orphaned and taken in by a Muslim man who prayed five times a day.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

A former schoolmaster who, because of a small inheritance, has been able to retire to the country, Hopkins is vain, envious of others, accustomed to his domestic comforts and utterly self-centered.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

The life of a shy English schoolmaster brightens when he falls in love with a music-hall singer who becomes his wife.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019

The warrant officer in charge of field exercises is the commandant, an overzealous schoolmaster named Bastian with an expansive walk and a round belly and a coat quivering with war medals.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr