How to Use martinet in a Sentence

martinet

noun

• The prison's warden was a cruel martinet.
• From martinets like the Karolyis, Bela and Marta, to this creep Nassar, the beauty of the sport was truly skin deep.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Paul was not a tyrannical father pushing his son like a martinet.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 25 Sep. 2017
• Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• As a war president, Wilson was both moralist and martinet.
  — Richard Norton Smith, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Evelyn Gresham is a successful lawyer and something of a martinet.
  — Cressida Connolly, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• The martinet head coach earned back-to-back last-place divisional finishes and the undying enmity of his players.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• The Trump administration doesn’t believe in climate change, so some White House martinet ordered the Badlands account to go silent.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2017
• The sovereign, a playboy martinet, demands nothing less.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
• Tuomanen also plays Cassius, a martinet, envious, too ready to take offense, a source of comic energy.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• His father, a martinet but also a stabilizing influence, died when Hernandez was in college.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• Also the disingenuous notion that someone would actually prefer drudging for a martinet spouse to pretty much any other lifestyle choice.
  — Glenn Kenny, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024