madam

Example Sentences

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While on a call with me last week, he rang off saying "the madam" was calling.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024

“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

Michael Billington of The Guardian, reviewing her there, wrote, “Carlin Glynn endows the madam with the refined good breeding and slight romantic forlornness of the head of a very classy, fee-paying American girls’ school.”

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

That little witch, they called her, that little madam the enchantress, and not all of them seemed to be convinced of her powers.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke