Example sentences for: schoolmarm

How can you use “schoolmarm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the untrammeled brutality of Milosevic's Serbs in Kosovo and Bosnia overshadowed the trammeled brutality of Tudjman's Croats, and Milosevic's colorful crudeness appeared more wicked than Tudjman's schoolmarm prissiness.

  • Among reader suggestions (in "The Fray"), Gore reports, "Sultry, Sexy, and Sassy seem superior to Schoolmarm, Shapeless, and Schnauzer."

  • Samuel Pepys, never confused by an American schoolmarm, invariably, so far as I have found, used I instead of me when the pronoun was combined with another pronoun or noun as the object of a verb or preposition.


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