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How to use schoolmaster in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Schoolmaster means a male teacher. Example: “The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.”

Examples of schoolmaster by meaning

nounAnything that teaches.

  • The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.
  • If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework1994, Gary Goldschneider, Joost Elffers, “June Ninth: The Day of Mental Insistence”, in The Secret Language of Birthdays, page 241

More sentences with schoolmaster

  • The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover.1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 85. From the entry chested
  • I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses.1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading. From the entry ablaut
  • Gordon was a man by nature ill-suited to be a schoolmaster: he was impatient and choleric.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 62. From the entry choleric
  • This version of the fragile, yet touching story accents the romance and courtship of the schoolmaster, properly called Mr.1969, Film Bulletin, volume 38, page 127. From the entry soubrette
  • I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters.1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading. From the entry ablaut
  • Such was the stone offered to the Italian schoolmasters for bread, and they seem to digest it badly.1903 October, “[By Many Hands.] A Teachers’ Strike.”, in The Practical Teacher: A Monthly Magazine and Review for the School-Room and the…. From the entry tristness
  • Schoolmaster, meanwhile, cannot brand the third-grade class at Mesa Elementary as protoracists (a conclusion that I am sure she does not believe anyway).2007, Karen Tracy, James P. Mcdaniel, Bruce E. Gronbeck, The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy, →ISBN. From the entry protoracist
  • It struck James that he was being quizzed by the schoolmaster who already knew the answers, but wanted to hear it from the pupil.2001, Raymond F. Aubé, Across Troubled Waters, page 329. From the entry steeringly

Meaning of schoolmaster

  1. noun A male teacher.
  2. noun A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
  3. noun Anything that teaches.

Full definition of schoolmaster

Questions about schoolmaster in a sentence

How do you use schoolmaster in a sentence?
Schoolmaster is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.”
What is a short sentence with schoolmaster?
“The war was a tough schoolmaster for the Athenians.”
What does schoolmaster mean?
Schoolmaster means a male teacher.

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