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

Dr. Farmer began his work in the Haitian village of Cange, where he met his future wife, Didi Bertrand, the daughter of a local schoolmaster.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

“The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling.

From New York Times • May 18, 2021

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 sounds of the classroom returned, and the schoolmaster appeared beside him.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry