schoolmaster

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Recent Examples of schoolmaster Set in a deteriorating boys school, the ghostly French thriller centers on the wife of a domineering schoolmaster (Paul Meurisse) whose continual abuse eventually inspires his wife (Clouzot) and mistress (Signoret) to join forces and plot his murder. Elaina Patton, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023 In the original Irving tale, the character of Katrina — the young woman in Sleepy Hollow who schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and prankster Brom Bones covet as a future bride — has only a small part. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023 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 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 See All Example Sentences for schoolmaster
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Noun
  • In addition to running Cali Coast Shutters and Shades, the couple are active in community projects, from sponsoring a Surfrider Foundation beach cleanup to making dinner for youth at Orangewood Foundation to purchasing a back-to-school wishlist for a local special education teacher.
    Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Both artists, writers and teachers are credited for their expansive approach to color and textiles.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Even the prolific scientist and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who would play a key role in both the American Revolution and the foundation of the new republic, took time out of a diplomatic trip to England to visit the intelligent rector.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Believers from across the Chicago area came to visit the Pilgrim Mother, which was blessed by Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
    Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In September 2022, schoolteacher Eliza Fletcher was kidnapped during an early morning run, and her body was later found near a vacant duplex.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Also among the speakers was Bree Watson Johnson, a schoolteacher who had driven four hours from Georgia to be at the dedication with her husband and one of their sons.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.
    Sergei Revzin, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • The instructor reminds the class to be a buddy not a bully and everyone hears your dad snort.
    Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That same year, Baker also served as an instructor at a computer training event in Budenheim, Germany, attended by over 120 active computer investigators representing 66 countries.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 19 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
  • In Kansas, the state board of education commissioned a task force -- consisting of parents, educators and students -- on student screen time, which found that its schools should limit cellphone use, with some school going with a bell-to-bell ban.
    Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Other educators who spoke to the Herald describe parents cutting back on extracurricular activities, avoiding school pick-up and drop-off lines, and even keeping children home to study informally.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Schoolmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmaster. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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