How to Use headmistress in a Sentence

headmistress

noun
  • This leaves her in the care of the mean headmistress, who forces her to work as a servant.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2014
  • Doreen Musungu, the school's headmistress, said the school was first given the land in 2010.
    — chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • The future of a headmistress, charged with two murders, is in the hands of one jury.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 24 June 2020
  • The future of a headmistress, charged with two murders, is in the hands of one jury.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In the new project, Christie portrays the headmistress of a school for outcasts that Wednesday attends.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2022
  • This school was once a monastery, its chapel boarded up since being hit by a WW2 bomb that claimed the life of the stern headmistress’ (Suzanne Bertish) son.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Michelle Yeoh portrays the headmistress in the 2024 Wicked adaptation.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Near her stood the Islamic-studies teacher, the headmistress of the cyber school, and the head of the Alimah Scouts program.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • There was a rumor a couple of years ago that Ralph Fiennes had been cast as Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Over the centuries, the school crumbled to ruins, and the headmistress’s garden was lost to history.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The rest of the statement read like a slightly strained note from a scrupulously polite headmistress.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The incident in question went down when James teased Charlotte on air for shaking hands with the headmistress of her school on the first day of the new school year.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 23 Nov. 2019
  • She was later named the school’s headmistress and president.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Dispatched to a Kentucky orphanage, she’s met by a prim and frosty headmistress.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Reports show Winfrey flew back to South Africa, took action to address the issue and fired the school’s headmistress and all dorm matrons.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
  • February, the headmistress, battles to keep the school open and care for her ailing deaf mother while her home life starts to crumble.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Emma Thompson as the evil headmistress is a hoot, and the spirited young cast, under Matthew Warchus’ direction, saves the day and then some.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Over the summer, the school has dealt with some controversy, as the school’s founder and headmistress resigned after conflicts with the board and parents.
    — Megan Friedman, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Aug. 2018
  • The headmistress is seated at her desk, back to the door at which kindly teacher Miss Honey nervously knocks.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
  • The classic stars Alastair Sim in two roles -- a boarding school’s severe headmistress and a bookie brother.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 July 2020
  • The classic stars Alastair Sim in two roles -- a boarding school’s severe headmistress and a bookie brother.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 July 2020
  • The classic stars Alastair Sim in two roles -- a boarding school’s severe headmistress and a bookie brother.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 July 2020
  • The classic stars Alastair Sim in two roles -- a boarding school’s severe headmistress and a bookie brother.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 July 2020
  • The classic stars Alastair Sim in two roles -- a boarding school’s severe headmistress and a bookie brother.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 July 2020
  • The classic stars Alastair Sim in two roles -- a boarding school’s severe headmistress and a bookie brother.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 July 2020
  • The classic stars Alastair Sim in two roles -- a boarding school’s severe headmistress and a bookie brother.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 1 July 2020
  • In 1840, Dorothea Dix, the former headmistress of a Boston school for girls, had completed a trip to England meant to help recover her health.
    — Howard Husock and, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • 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
  • The villainous Miss Trunchbull is no longer the school headmistress; the dim-witted Wormwoods are no longer Matilda’s parents.
    — Ashley Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The Crown season five has a new headmistress queen, played by the Olivier-winning actress known for making Harry Potter’s fifth year hell.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 30 July 2021

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