How to Use mistress in a Sentence

mistress

noun

• His wife suspected that the woman she'd seen with him was his mistress.
• The dog was always obedient to its master and mistress.
• The master and mistress of the universe did a post mortem.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
• Guy comes home from the war with a mistress and is killed by his wife and her lover.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2022
• Gone are the days of the mistress calling the home phone during dinner time.
  — NBC News, 6 June 2017
• She’s done this enough times to know the mistress will take the hardest hit in the aftermath.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
• She was told the teenager was being groomed to be Mike Pence’s mistress.
  — Laura Zornosa, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• Charles’s new wife would always be seen as his old mistress.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• The Cup, or even a trip to the Final, is so often a cruel, elusive mistress.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
• But in the early stages of the show, when Catherine is still new to the court, the villain of the piece is Diane de Poitiers, Henry's mistress.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 12 Aug. 2022
• Su’s boss instructs her to lie about his whereabouts on calls from both his wife and his mistress.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• There was a mistress, a house Robert bought her on Long Island, and no prenup—a perfect recipe for the gossip pages.
  — Matthew Kassel, Town & Country, 6 July 2020
• She was told that the teenager was being groomed to be Donald Trump’s mistress.
  — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• When Nathalie Léger was around nine years old, her father’s mistress moved into the house next door.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• Even the school's moniker — Ole Miss — derives from the term enslaved people once used for the mistress of the plantation.
  — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
• King Louis XV had the shape commissioned to mimic the perfect lip shape of his mistress.
  — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 8 June 2021
• French filmmaker Maïwenn will both direct and star in the project as the title mistress.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• Mobutu Sese Seko, the strongman of Zaire/Congo, kept as his mistress the twin sister of his own wife.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• In over his head: Jake carries on a secret affair with the mistress of a sadistic Yakuza crime boss.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• This week has been a cruel mistress—both for United Airlines and for Sean Spicer.
  — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 12 Apr. 2017
• Married 66 years, his wife, Jeanette, is his muse, but nature is his mistress.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
• The mistresses talk about the party as a labor of love, calling in favors from friends.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Bannister deferring to Ada as the mistress of the house instead of Agnes.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• Two sisters, Christine and Léa Papin, who worked as maids, had murdered the mistress of the house and her daughter.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
• With any of these, the temptation is there to focus on the younger makers, rather than their wiser mistress.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 22 Aug. 2021
• She was taught to read and write by the benevolent mistress whose family owned her.
  — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• The 1932 portrait depicts the artist’s blonde mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, dressed in a hat and green-checkered dress and sitting curled up in a chair.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• The event was like watching a politician deny an affair while holding the hand of his mistress.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• In the film, Pugh stars as Jean Tatlock, Oppenheimer’s mistress.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• Criticism is levelled rather at his attempt to hire his mistress and then deny the fact.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024