How to Use schoolmaster in a Sentence

schoolmaster

noun

• The schoolmaster was tall and thin with a hunched back and a deep scowl on his gaunt face.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 June 2022
• What does being the son of a schoolmaster have to do with anything?
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• His father, a schoolmaster, had died while his mother was still pregnant.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• To torment the village schoolmaster, the rantipoles sneak into his house and load his favorite pipe with gunpowder.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Both William and the schoolmaster then escorted the stoic George to his classroom.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2017
• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
• 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.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• His rimless eyeglasses and charcoal sport coat gave him the air of a serious, but benevolent, schoolmaster.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• That story begins with Will in Lancashire, working as a put-upon schoolmaster.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
• But as an older man, a schoolmaster, Kennedy Manyika was wary of his children taking too much interest in music.
  — Andrew Holter, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2023
• Michelle Yeoh also plays a professor and Laurence Fishburne is the schoolmaster.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 16 Oct. 2022
• Jesuits worked as schoolmasters in places like China, India, Brazil, the Congo.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2019
• The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world’s first basic income proposal.
  — Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
• Even more directly, Eliot the schoolmaster continues to influence students of literature.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019
• After being prompted by his mom and dad to venture into the barn, Sabastian quickly returns, overcome with joy at the sight of Tom, the family's new 13-year-old schoolmaster pony.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 18 Oct. 2016
• Bertie’s stint as assistant schoolmaster under a family friend suited him better but ended when the school closed; another round of trials as apprentice pharmacist, draper, and trainee teacher followed.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
• Paul Bettany plays Osborne, an older officer and former schoolmaster, admired by all, who’s called Sir by his subordinates and Uncle by his peers.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• In addition, the theater has given Pugh an absolutely marvelous arena in which to recount the tale of eccentric schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the biggest fright of his life.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• The former soldier and schoolmaster is presented here as careless, petty, monomaniacal, vainglorious, technophobic and, worst of all, bored by the lovely people and landscapes of Tibet.
  — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.
  — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• Just listen to the town’s venerable schoolmaster, or the dashing journalist from the big city, or the gnarly jail keeper, whose speech shifts regularly into wild, increasingly feral approximations of standard English.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2017
• In the 1760s, an English schoolmaster named John Entick hacked trespass law, which previously only applied to citizens invading each other’s property, to constrain the government as well.
  — Bruce Schneier, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023