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

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 his family? Or in him, my young madam? Which is it?”

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks