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

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

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

I observed from the rear view mirror, madam, that the little boy grew quiet.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg