How to Use madam in a Sentence

madam

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], al, 12 Apr. 2020
• Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty: The sheriff and the brothel madam.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al.com, 18 July 2019
• In my physical form, there is no trace of the strange little girl, the little madam.
  — Madeleine Watts, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The inmates take over the town, becoming aristocrats, a prince of the church, a fancy madam.
  — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Over the past 17 years, scores of women have accused Epstein of abuse them, with many describing Maxwell as the madam who recruited them.
  — Larry Neumeister, Fortune, 28 June 2022
• People think of a madam as being sort of an older woman who is experienced in this.
  — ELLE, 11 Apr. 2022
• Over the past 17 years, scores of women have accused Mr. Epstein of abuse them, with many describing Ms. Maxwell as the madam who recruited them.
  — Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister, The Christian Science Monitor, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Many described Maxwell as acting as a madam who recruited them to give massages to Epstein.
  — Larry Neumeister, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
• The play, about a 19th-century madam who ran a successful brothel in the area, had been researched and written by inmates at the Indiana Women's Prison.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2018
• 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 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
• Jenkins alleges that she has been targeted by the site since 2012, and has been falsely portrayed as a celebrity madam and falsely linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Should win: Whether gliding nude through a high-tech lab or recalling flecks of repressed memory, Thandie Newton was fierce as a saloon madam in Westworld.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2017
• At separate ends of town, two buxom madams and their bevies of painted, frilled and scandalously clad ladies welcomed miners and threw lavish parties.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2018
• The two reportedly first met in the late 1990s, introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who accusers say was Epstein’s girlfriend and madam.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
• In 1930s China, a Wing Chun master is caught between a martial arts grandmaster, an underworld madam and the military.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2017
• The photos show the globetrotting millionaire with his alleged madam at his side on a ski trip, a beach vacation and at a cabin retreat stretching back decades.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2021
• The show focuses primarily on Morton’s madam, Margaret Well, and her two daughters.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 6 Apr. 2017
• In this new version, Kaz is personally paying off her indenture in installments, meaning that she’s technically still owned by Tante Heleen, the madam of the Menagerie.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• A few days later, madam speaker attended a dinner party for about 24 people at the home of state arts commission member Stanlee Gatti’s house.
  — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 4 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024