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
• My father, Peter Hall, was born in Suffolk, the child of the local stationmaster.
  — Rebecca Hall, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2021
• Did the stationmaster neglect to set the proper signal?
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
• My grandfather William Hawkes was the stationmaster at Southall.
  — Will Hawkes, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• 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
• Louise, the oldest of nineteen children, was married to a railroad stationmaster.
  — Susan Goldman Rubin, Time, 13 Mar. 2018
• His father was a stationmaster, his mother of peasant stock.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024