How To Use Martinet In A Sentence

  • They discover that the new teacher is a martinet.
  • He understands he can't be a martinet with a group of seasoned professionals.
  • He was not what West Pointers would describe as a martinet. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
  • Lady Osbaldestone paused, then continued, "And there was the undeniable fact that his father was a martinet. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • He became what he called the martinet, someone who belittled and mocked the officers that he initially treated as his friends. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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  • What we discovered was that the best chefs are extrovert showmen, martinets, so now they are full-throated reality shows. Smile, You're on Camera
  • He's a retired Lieutenant Colonel and a bit of a martinet.
  • It is run by an ex-army martinet absurdly out of touch and absent-mindedly rooting about in irrelevances.
  • But he was anything but an unyielding martinet.
  • Concerned to limit the smothering, Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks, whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms, which he would change as often as 10 times a day.
  • An explosive martinet on the set, but the result was 'Elmer Gantry,' 'In Cold Blood' and 'The Professionals.' Hard-Nosed Hollywood
  • Shortly before the concert began, one of the ushers - merciless martinets who patrol the hall with a critical eye - saw that my placement did not conform with their approved seating plan.
  • Campos-Xavier AB, Martinet D, Bateman J, Belluoccio D, Rowley L, et al. (2009) Mutations in the heparan-sulfate proteoglycan glypican 6 (GPC6) impair endochondral ossification and cause recessive omodysplasia. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • 3. The subtle and not so subtle innuendoes about the personal character and actions of Father Finegan: in particular in relation to the use of Church funds (vestments, no published accounts); his so called "martinet" charater (the issuing of "rules" regarding silence in Church). Archive 2009-02-01
  • He had a well-earned reputation as uncompromising martinet.
  • Added to the punctilio of the martinet was the rigor of the moralist. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
  • ‘The officer,’ he reasoned, ‘will not make that martinet's error a second time.
  • He was a self-disciplined martinet and a control freak who mapped out his sons' schedules, even their playtimes.
  • Our dean is an understanding counselor, not a martinet.
  • He had heard a rumour that Elias Jenkins, an ecclesiastical martinet, was interested in coming to Pontywen. GOODBYE CURATE
  • She's a martinet - even tougher with herself than she is with others. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • Amidst the heroes, there were also a handful of cowards and martinets.
  • “In an extended sense, a martinet is any person for whom a strict adherence to rules and etiquette is paramount: martinets often use etiquette and other rules as an excuse to trump ethics, to the point that etiquette loses its ethical ground.” joe from Lowell says: Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army
  • We didn't think... you see, Jemima Cray... she's a bit of a martinet. THE BLACK OPAL
  • The Governor was prone to military simplicity - ‘a perfect martinet in military discipline’ was how the senior official in the Colonial Office described him.
  • Calvin, a "martinet", or oppidan, in the Collèege de la The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • The crew on board the aging vessel is a mix of Namibians, Cubans and white South Africans, overseen by a martinet whom everyone dislikes.
  • To the midfielder, the perception of him as a mirthless martinet is a failure to understand the greatest manager this country has produced.
  • a "martinet," if you know what that means; and my dear mother, who by herself, perhaps, would have been almost too gentle to keep all her family in good order, was firm as a rock where any wish of _his_ was concerned. A Christmas Posy
  • In the worst sense, he was a monomaniacal martinet whose focus on his bailiwick to the exclusion of everything else is phenomenal.
  • When the time comes for truths to be told, though, Ms. Scott Thomas fires off volleys of passion that transform Mimi from a prim martinet into a powerfully loving influence in John's life. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
  • Calvin, a "martinet", or oppidan, in the Collèege de la The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Karol Sr was a self-disciplined martinet and a control freak who mapped out his sons' schedules, even their playtimes.
  • She was a silky, martinet of a woman when it came to her money, which she would gladly take in and spend only the amount to feed and clothe the ones who worked under her and furnish the house as lavishly as was needed.
  • Clarke could be a martinet, and as such was frequently a buffer for Alvin.
  • He combined a martinet's toughness with a passion for exotic pornography, which he would eagerly show to honoured guests in the privacy of his cabin.
  • The movie portrays him as a dedicated martinet interested only in victory.
  • She was to all intents and purposes a bit of a martinet but if you did the work, performed reasonably well, paid attention and aimed for a reasonable French accent, you could get along with her.
  • And sometimes, not having the fear of poetical, or rather of unpoetical precisians and martinets before his eyes, he did not even scruple to naturalize words for his own use from foreign springs, such as exsufflicate and deracinate; or to coin a word, whenever the concurring reasons of sense and verse invited it; as in fedary, intrinse, intrinsicate, insisture, and various others. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • The man naturally looks a bit crestfallen and the secretary, letting down his martinet's mask for the moment, gestures with his head to an elderly gent, sitting nearby in a large leather upholstered chair, his head buried in the Times.
  • Campos-Xavier AB, Martinet D, Bateman J, Belluoccio D, Rowley L, et al. (2009) Mutations in the heparan-sulfate proteoglycan glypican 6 (GPC6) impair endochondral ossification and cause recessive omodysplasia. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Iraqis, he says, are once again looking for the kind of martinet he knew as a boy. ‘Strong Like Saddam’
  • On the movie set, Brooks was an explosive martinet. Hard-Nosed Hollywood
  • He sits in the court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
  • He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
  • It's often not easy for a manager to ‘walk the tightrope’ between commanding the respect of his team and risk being regarded as a martinet.
  • No, I'll bet you didn't, he thought, you're a right little martinet. THE BOOK LADY
  • Concerned to limit the smothering, Fritz sent the boy off to the barracks, whence he emerged a martinet much given to fancy uniforms, which he would change as often as 10 times a day.

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