How to Use madam in a Sentence

madam

noun
  • Neither madam nor monsieur had any idea what a fish fork was.
    — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Pip pip, cheerio, and a merry good day to you, sirs and madams.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The original madam of all madams.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In my physical form, there is no trace of the strange little girl, the little madam.
    — Madeleine Watts, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Margo gets props for starting the best rumor of the episode, which is that Dara is a madam.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Genevieve Page is tough but touching as the madam whose heart belongs not to the daddies but to the girls.
    — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Lou Wooster, in Birmingham, is revered as the madam who saved the city.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Christina was on the cover of Blender, dressed like a madam from the Old West.
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Ladies’ first big blowup concerns a rumor that an old fair-weather friend of Myka’s is a madam.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The inmates take over the town, becoming aristocrats, a prince of the church, a fancy madam.
    — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • People think of a madam as being sort of an older woman who is experienced in this.
    — ELLE, 11 Apr. 2022
  • As Howard had with Henry, a man named William Mara became close to the younger madam.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Nicoise salad, croque madam, steak frites, cod Provencal and haricot verts seasoned with herbs de Provence.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 21 May 2024
  • The first follows newlyweds expecting their first child, the second a brash older madam on a green bicycle.
    — Sarah Neilson, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
  • The mystery madam struts through the mansion and heads straight to the backyard, striding confidently past the other women.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Many described Maxwell as acting as a madam who recruited them to give massages to Epstein.
    — Larry Neumeister, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
  • Many described Maxwell as acting as a madam who recruited them to give massages to Epstein.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2025
  • It was bestowed upon him by Olga, a madam who bought him from his mother at the age of fifteen; his real name is Johnny.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • In his novel, the winning ticket belongs to a flamboyant madam of a high-class brothel and Ernest becomes her new houseboy.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The cathouse madam Billie (played with authority and delight by Kate Shindle) has more to do than before.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Stanford was a one-time madam in San Francisco who later in life became the mayor of Sausalito.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The young trio migrates south to another brothel in Seoul, this one presided over by an equally beautiful but much more modern madam, Dani.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Ten miles south, off the old Cheyenne–Deadwood stagecoach route, is one of the few monuments in the country that is dedicated to a saloon’s madam.
    — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Over the past 17 years, scores of women have accused Epstein of abuse them, with many describing Maxwell as the madam who recruited them.
    — Tom Hays, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
  • As damsel in distress Dolores and jaded town madam Maeve, Wood and Newton play hosts whose minds are designed to be erased after each encounter.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
  • This, dear sirs and madams, is where your policy reaches a truly impressive level of bureaucratic creativity.
    — Yehiel Kyle Israel, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The order comes as part of a 2015 lawsuit between Giuffre and Epstein's madam, Maxwell.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • His private life once again made the headlines when Evans' name was mentioned among the customers for Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss' service.
    — Richard Natale, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Kaye’s bleak origins as a poor kid from a California desert community whose mother pimped him out to pay the rent, then sold him to a Los Angeles madam.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The madam of the establishment was Kitty Schmidt, who had run brothels across the German capital since the early interwar years.
    — David Motadel, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022

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