madam

Example Sentences

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“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

I asked the hotel manager whether there were damages to be paid; he told me, 'No madam, nothing was broken, everything was simply disassembled'.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 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

“In their mouth. I smelled it when your madam and master came in to see me this morning and also when I went to ease myself.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie