Examples of headmaster in a Sentence
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The leader of the replicated website is described as a headmaster, a title seldom used in America.
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Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
The escalating tensions between Ruby and James result in a comic catastrophe at an important school gala, prompting Maxton Hall’s humorless headmaster (Thomas Douglas) to craft a punishment that forces them to work together.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 May 2024
Anne McClain reprises her role as Uma, Ursula’s daughter and the headmaster of Auradon, while Melanie Paxson returns as Fairy Godmother.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024
Spencer blames the school’s headmaster, John Alexander Hector Porch, for its culture of cruelty.
—Cynthia McFadden, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
The headmaster at the time, James Darling, was inspired by Outward Bound, a movement birthed in Europe before World War II that aimed to build competence and confidence.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
And who better to do it than a feared nazir, or headmaster, like Uncle Usama?
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The head boy witnessed these nightly beatings while standing in the shadows behind the headmaster, his job to record on the school list who had been beaten, for what, on which day, and how many times.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
By the time my parents left, I had been kicked out of school in Lyme Regis (wild and undisciplined, the headmaster said) and sent to finish preparing for my A-level exams in the nearby city of Exeter.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
The escalating tensions between Ruby and James result in a comic catastrophe at an important school gala, prompting Maxton Hall’s humorless headmaster (Thomas Douglas) to craft a punishment that forces them to work together.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 May 2024
Anne McClain reprises her role as Uma, Ursula’s daughter and the headmaster of Auradon, while Melanie Paxson returns as Fairy Godmother.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024
Spencer blames the school’s headmaster, John Alexander Hector Porch, for its culture of cruelty.
—Cynthia McFadden, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
The headmaster at the time, James Darling, was inspired by Outward Bound, a movement birthed in Europe before World War II that aimed to build competence and confidence.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
And who better to do it than a feared nazir, or headmaster, like Uncle Usama?
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The head boy witnessed these nightly beatings while standing in the shadows behind the headmaster, his job to record on the school list who had been beaten, for what, on which day, and how many times.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
By the time my parents left, I had been kicked out of school in Lyme Regis (wild and undisciplined, the headmaster said) and sent to finish preparing for my A-level exams in the nearby city of Exeter.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headmaster. Accessed 17 May. 2024.
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headmaster
noun
head·mas·ter
-ˌmas-tər 
-ˈmas-
: a male head of a private school
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