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How to use martinet in a sentence

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The crew on board the aging vessel is a mix of Namibians, Cubans and white South Africans, overseen by a martinet whom everyone dislikes.
He was a self-disciplined martinet and a control freak who mapped out his sons' schedules, even their playtimes.
In the worst sense, he was a monomaniacal martinet whose focus on his bailiwick to the exclusion of everything else is phenomenal.
He sits in the court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
He understands he can't be a martinet with a group of seasoned professionals.
It is run by an ex-army martinet absurdly out of touch and absent-mindedly rooting about in irrelevances.
To the midfielder, the perception of him as a mirthless martinet is a failure to understand the greatest manager this country has produced.
He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
The movie portrays him as a dedicated martinet interested only in victory.
There is, perhaps, room for extenuation in the case of Wirz, an ineffectual martinet clearly out of his depth.
Frederick's upbringing and education were strictly controlled by his father, who was a martinet as well as a paranoiac.
Newspapers indignantly portrayed him as a martinet who had made himself prime minister in all but name.
Though a martinet with his soldiers, he won and kept their devotion by his personal bravery and his concern for their well-being.
If the judge enforces the Rules, he or she feels a crabbed, vindictive martinet.
He was an artist, poet, lecturer, teacher, diplomat and, on any mountain trail, a martinet.
Though well meaning, King was temperamental and sometimes ill, a martinet sea dog who did not easily translate to ruling a fractious young colony.
Schiano, the former coach at Rutgers, brought a reputation with him as a harsh disciplinarian and a martinet.
Bragg was an imaginative strategist and an effective drillmaster and organizer, but he was also a weak tactician and a martinet who was disliked by a number of his principal subordinates.
A martinet, he is immensely unpopular among Thais.
Examples from Classical Literature
One suspected that the flowers had been drilled by a martinet of a gardener.
They always say he's more of a martinet at home than ever he was in the Army.
To be sure, Stephens was an extreme instance of the martinet of constitutionalism.
In these she was a martinet, and would appropriate a fat pack at beggar-my-neighbour with infinite gusto.
The new Viceroy was a soldier and a martinet, and his authority had been defied.
He is lying on the rug, on his fat stomach, and is becoming quite a martinet.
If he had been a martinet, it would have been worse for us all.
Her boss there was such a martinet that his reputation was known in Kress stores nationwide.
So there was a time when Lombardi was criticized for being an authoritarian martinet who worshiped at the shrine of success.
The colonel was something of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate.
He was a good deal of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate.
Vizcarra, though a dandy himself, was no martinet with his men.
The nursery based on Martinet Road, Thornaby, regularly takes its kids out to investigate the local community.
Youngsters at Teddy Bears Day Nursery on Martinet Road, Thornaby, have been getting in the jubilee spirit.
Martinet will examine the effectiveness of combining NRT products in a smoking cessation program.
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