How to Use headmaster in a Sentence

headmaster

noun
  • He's since been known to sleep on the headmaster's desk and stroll through the halls.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Even the headmaster, who had a son and a daughter, must know.
    — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Koble would be the school's headmaster and one of the teachers.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2022
  • As the school grows, Solum said, the board hopes to hire a headmaster.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The headmaster climbed onto the stage and lighted a tall brass oil lamp.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • This man is a busy doctor, but finds time to serve as headmaster of a samurai school.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • 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 gathers the crowd of expectant teenagers in front of the school.
    — Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In his office, the headmaster told the story again, Paul said.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The school dinners, the headmaster explained, would not be cooked in the school canteen.
    — Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Him, my mother, and the headmaster, kinda like a prayer meeting.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • If Teddy walks out, James will call the headmaster and complain.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The headmaster punished Trayson by telling him to say sorry, while on his knees, Paul said.
    — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Russell is a victim of mental and physical abuse at the hands of the school’s headmaster.
    — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • There was the lacrosse field, the brick dormitories, the unused chapel, the headmaster’s house.
    — Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The headmaster stressed that the flag of Israel is at the front next to the American flag.
    — Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
  • And a Board of Trustee member who was a former headmaster has resigned.
    — Fox News, 18 Aug. 2018
  • And who better to do it than a feared nazir, or headmaster, like Uncle Usama?
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The ideal lighting is a soft, warm glow like in the headmaster’s office at a British boarding school.
    — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The headmaster fled to Bangladesh soon after the August killing began.
    — Fox News, 5 June 2018
  • 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 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
  • On orders from the headmaster, the teacher had asked all the Indian students to raise their hands.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • My grandfather is a headmaster.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In 1942, he was elected assistant headmaster by the board of trustees.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • My grandfather was a headmaster.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025

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