How to Use martinet in a Sentence
martinet
noun- The prison's warden was a cruel martinet.
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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
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Paul was not a tyrannical father pushing his son like a martinet.
—Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 25 Sep. 2017
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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
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As a war president, Wilson was both moralist and martinet.
—Richard Norton Smith, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
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Evelyn Gresham is a successful lawyer and something of a martinet.
—Cressida Connolly, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
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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
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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
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The sovereign, a playboy martinet, demands nothing less.
—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
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Tuomanen also plays Cassius, a martinet, envious, too ready to take offense, a source of comic energy.
—John Timpane, Philly.com, 25 Mar. 2018
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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
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His father, a martinet but also a stabilizing influence, died when Hernandez was in college.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
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