schoolmaster

Example Sentences

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Silber has transformed Mr. Lundie, Brigadoon’s schoolmaster and moral guide, into Widow Lundie.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

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

Putin barked “Speak directly!” at his trembling foreign spy chief, Sergei Naryshkin, who fumbled his words like a boy in front of a schoolmaster, eyes bulging with fear.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 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 Lord of the Flies spoke in the voice of a schoolmaster.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding