madam

Example Sentences

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These days they joke that Maya will call Kamala “big sister general” until she earns the title of madam president.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2024

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

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024

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

“For heaven’s sake, madam, speak lower. What advantage can it be for you to offend Mr. Darcy? You will never recommend yourself to his friend by so doing!”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen