headmistress

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Recent Examples of headmistress McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025 The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled. Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025 Buy Now 12 of 15 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl Precocious bookworms everywhere found a kindred spirit in Matilda, a little girl with neglectful parents and a loving teacher who takes on a terrorizing headmistress with her special powers. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024 The film also stars Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Ethan Slater as Boq; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard. Robert Lang, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for headmistress
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Noun
  • Ronan’s character, Maria, is a beleaguered primary school teacher whose life is tough enough without the relentless onslaught of bad behavior by young Danny (Eddie Waller, in his debut role).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Deep into an auditorium of hundreds, perhaps more, a then-60 year old high school social studies teacher, sitting alone, could feel eyes throughout the room suddenly glaring in his direction.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The movie, written and directed by Roger Kumble, follows Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon), the daughter of the new headmaster at a private high school in New York City.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Where Shy was the subject of Porter’s slender book — which is really more of a beat-poetry day-in-the-life monologue — the focus shifts here to the weary headmaster who’s been fighting on the students’ behalf all these years.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud.
    Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025
  • The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton.
    Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Hedda, so determined to be mistress of her own emotions, is felled.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Need someone to absorb your wife’s anger over that extramarital affair without inconveniencing your mistress?
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • McConaughey is joined by one other name actor, America Ferrera, who plays Mary Ludwig, the schoolteacher whose charges Kevin was tasked with escorting through danger.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When 17 children from one classroom inexplicably run out into the night, a frightened insular community starts pointing fingers at their young schoolteacher (Julia Garner) and the sole survivor, Alex (Cary Christopher).
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Families will paint Autumn Gnomes together, with instructors guiding the process step-by-step so even beginners can walk away proud of their canvas.
    Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His latest is the story of a teenager who steals his driving instructor’s car in order to visit his girlfriend in college.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What’s Helsinki’s strategy for attracting high quality educators?
    Kristen Edgreen Kaufman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Murphy’s family background — his parents were teachers, his grandfather a headmaster, most of his aunts and uncles educators — gave him a natural connection to the role.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025

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