madam

Example Sentences

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"How would madam like her hair today?" teased Mrs Bennett, combing the hair of one of her four-year-old charges.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

McBride thanked the chair, calling them "madam," and began to speak before Keating demanded that McBride be addressed correctly.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

“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

“We regret, madam, that we cannot remain on shore,” said Bono.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson