taskmaster

How To Use taskmaster In A Sentence

• If I could only have been assured of their being dead, I should have felt satisfied; but I imagined I saw my dear mother in the cotton-field, followed by a merciless taskmaster, and no one to speak a consoling word to her! The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
• The woman who could become America's next first lady is teasingly called the taskmaster by her friends, her task tonight, to sell themselves as an attractive first couple. CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008
• I found in mountaineering an activity, a way of life, a lifestyle that was appropriate for my type of personality, because I tend to be lazy, but not incompetent. l found in mountaineering a hard taskmaster. To Reach the Highest Mountains
• But history is a hard taskmaster and she has also bequeathed to us all the problems arising from the defeats and betrayals of the socialist revolution in the twentieth century.
• Renowned as a hard taskmaster who drives his charges to the limit, he admits to being a straight-talking sort who fell out with the rulers of amateur boxing in his native country.
• Taylor considers himself to be something of a hard taskmaster but he has been delighted with the response of his players.
• He is said by colleagues to be a hard taskmaster who does not tolerate failure.
• Gilbert is a hard taskmaster, but Murray certainly knew that before they got together.
• Mars is a hard-driving taskmaster, so you've probably been overdoing things again recently.
• He seemed a hard taskmaster, but he did it all for what he saw to be the ultimate good.