How to Use headmaster in a Sentence
headmaster
noun-
And the headmaster’s office isn’t the only piece of history on offer.
— Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2024 -
His disposition was more that of a school headmaster than the leader of a liberation movement.
— Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2024 -
He's since been known to sleep on the headmaster's desk and stroll through the halls.
— Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022 -
Gellar takes on the role of a headmaster at the school.
— Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2022 -
Koble would be the school's headmaster and one of the teachers.
— Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2022 -
Even the headmaster, who had a son and a daughter, must know.
— Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 -
The Tennessean said Koonce was the school's headmaster.
— Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023 -
The headmaster gathers the crowd of expectant teenagers in front of the school.
— Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022 -
The school dinners, the headmaster explained, would not be cooked in the school canteen.
— Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022 -
In his office, the headmaster told the story again, Paul said.
— Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 23 Mar. 2021 -
Apparently, William, as a 17-year-old, went to the headmaster and went to bat for me.
— Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2022 -
The Dirtybird headmaster is also about to hit the road on a 2018 summer/fall tour.
— Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 July 2018 -
This man is a busy doctor, but finds time to serve as headmaster of a samurai school.
— Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023 -
There was the lacrosse field, the brick dormitories, the unused chapel, the headmaster’s house.
— Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020 -
School was out for spring break and the school does not use the building for classrooms, according to the headmaster.
— Carol Robinson, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018 -
The next headmaster could be appointed by the summer of 2019, Smythe said in the statement.
— Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 25 Jan. 2018 -
The headmaster punished Trayson by telling him to say sorry, while on his knees, Paul said.
— Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2021 -
Its about an all girls school where the headmaster starts giving the girls pills to make the grow extra limbs all over their bodies.
— Kelsey Lawler, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2010 -
The boy's father came to the school and shot the headmaster to death, according to the newspaper clipping.
— Greg Garrison, AL.com, 15 Feb. 2018 -
As the school’s headmaster, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, stresses over and over again, Drea has to be smarter than her wealthy peers.
— Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2022 -
Gordonstoun's German headmaster, Kurt Hahn, was the one to break the news.
— Katie Frost, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021 -
If Teddy walks out, James will call the headmaster and complain.
— Seija Rankin, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2020 -
Hale was a former student of the religious school, which Koonce has been the headmaster of since April 2016.
— Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023 -
It is set in a high school where students learn from the evil headmaster, a bear, that the only way to graduate is to kill a peer.
— New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022 -
Benjamin was in the headmaster’s position for less than five months and says he was forced out.
— Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019 -
The headmaster fled to Bangladesh soon after the August killing began.
— Fox News, 5 June 2018 -
Russell is a victim of mental and physical abuse at the hands of the school’s headmaster.
— Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 24 July 2024 -
And a Board of Trustee member who was a former headmaster has resigned.
— Fox News, 18 Aug. 2018 -
The teacher subsequently shot four people, killing the boy’s father and the son of the school’s deputy headmaster.
— Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 -
Celia's Caroline is the modishly coiffed headmaster at a posh school; Alan's Gillian is a rough-around-the-edges sheep farmer.
— Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
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