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

“Tickets, madam? I have a tour starting soon,” came one pitch.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2023

It is nothing like the schooling Gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri