How to Use stationmaster in a Sentence

stationmaster

noun
  • Ray Klopp, in the stationmaster’s office, had taken the call from Feeney.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
  • The stationmaster was understanding and helped the man get a ticket back to Paris.
    — Mary Morris, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Louise, the oldest of nineteen children, was married to a railroad stationmaster.
    — Susan Goldman Rubin, Time, 13 Mar. 2018
  • My grandfather William Hawkes was the stationmaster at Southall.
    — Will Hawkes, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • My father, Peter Hall, was born in Suffolk, the child of the local stationmaster.
    — Rebecca Hall, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The stationmaster bicycles ahead of them to issue a warning at the watering hole; the residents begin to whisper.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The current station head and the 71-year-old widow of an assistant stationmaster who died in the attack placed flowers on a temporary altar set up for offerings.
    — Fox News, 19 Mar. 2018
  • His father was a railroad stationmaster, and his maternal grandfather had been rat catcher on one of Queen Victoria’s estates.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Shizue Takahashi, the wife of a subway stationmaster who died in the gas attack, asked the Justice Ministry for a chance to meet the convicts and witness their executions.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The 1912 Union train station is full of railroading artifacts, while the stationmaster’s office even contains a working telegraph.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The stationmaster, who is in charge of signaling, denies wrongdoing and has blamed the accident on a possible technical failure, the BBC reported.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • One day, Edison saw a stationmaster’s young son playing on the tracks and pulled the boy to safety before an oncoming train crushed him; as a reward, the father taught Edison Morse code and showed him how to operate the telegraph machines.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Ramrakha—born in Kenya to an Indian consular official, the grandson of a stationmaster on the railway from Mombasa to Nairobi—took some of his earliest photographs as a teenager.
    — Emmanuel Iduma, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
  • Born in eastern England 1930, the son of a railway stationmaster, Hall began directing as a student at Cambridge University.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2017

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