madam

Example Sentences

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"How would madam like her hair today?" teased Mrs Bennett, combing the hair of one of her four-year-old charges.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

“Poor Things” features Bella, a reanimated woman who has to invent her life, and her guideposts are a prostitute, a brothel madam and a former actress.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

Speaker Frank: A simple matter of coordination, madam.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

Uncle Clifford is a taskmistress, but she minds her dancers less in the way of a madam than a mother hen.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2022

“And I do promise you, madam, that your darling boy is perfectly safe.”

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl