schoolmaster

Example Sentences

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His rimless eyeglasses and charcoal sport coat gave him the air of a serious, but benevolent, schoolmaster.

From New York Times

He effectively grabs your head in order to direct your gaze this way and that, like a brutish schoolmaster manhandling a daydreaming pupil.

From The Guardian

A cowardly schoolmaster finds courage to openly defy the Nazis in his European town.

From Los Angeles Times

Young David Montgomery saw little of his father during the early years of World War II and in 1942 was placed under the guardianship of a schoolmaster, Tom Reynolds, and his wife, Phyllis.

From Washington Post

The boy discoverers of Lascaux took their questions to one of their schoolmasters, who roped in Henri Breuil, a priest familiar enough with all things prehistoric to be known as “the pope of prehistory”.

From The Guardian