Sample Sentences for
superintendent
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  • It's a pretty old apartment house, and the superintendent's a lazy ..., and everything creaks and squeaks.  (source)
    superintendent = a caretaker of a building -- such as an apartment building
  • It does seem so strange to think of Superintendent Bell ever being a boy.  (source)
    Superintendent = a person who directs and manages an organization
  • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.  (source)
    superintendence = supervision
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  • And he had finally done what the school superintendent never could.  (source)
    superintendent = a person who directs and manages an organization -- such as a school district
  • Mr. Darcy often acknowledged himself to be under the greatest obligations to my father's active superintendence, and when, immediately before my father's death, Mr. Darcy gave him a voluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it to be as much a debt of gratitude to him, as of his affection to myself.†  (source)
  • No. When this neighborhood goes up they'll need superintendents to watch over things.†  (source)
  • But there is no occasion to enter upon an argument to prove the being of the Almighty, or to illustrate his power by words, who has so many undeniable testimonies in the breasts of every rational being to prove his existence: and we have sufficient proofs enough to convince us of the great superintendency of Divine Providence in the minutest affairs of this world; the manifest existence of the invisible world; the reality of spirits, and intelligence between us and them.†  (source)
  • The senior work superintendent, it was said, had long been threatening to save time by giving the squads their work assignments the evening before,  (source)
    superintendent = a person who directs and manages an organization
  • At half-past three in the winter the fire was lighted by the discreet servant, who had the superintendence of the little apartment, and in the summer ices were placed on the table at the same hour.†  (source)
  • They were policemen, journalists, township superintendents, printers.†  (source)
  • He had a long story to tell of his quarrel with the superintendent of his department,  (source)
    superintendent = someone who manages other people
  • Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed,' or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.†  (source)
  • With the permission of regional and district superintendents, and principals of schools, we tie into the moral and spiritual values program already in place in the schools.†  (source)
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