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Example sentences for: dame

How can you use “dame” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Far from being alienated, she was the internationally recognized grande dame of a group of rising geniuses.
A Notre Dame grad and Navy veteran, he got his start in the early '60s hosting a talk show in San Diego, Calif., and spent the next quarter century anchoring shows in New York, St. Louis, and Los Angeles.
There are quite a lot of opossums where I live (not, I hasten to say, of the possum type meriting the affectionate attention of Dame Edna Everage), and one sees them most often after they have been killed on the road by a car.
.the party consisted of Beckett, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Harold Pinter, and the late Alan Webb.”
Thus a Dame Jeanne (a big fat-bellied bottle) became a demi-john in English, “God encompasseth us’ became the Goat and Compasses , and the girasole (sunflower) artichoke became the Jerusalem artichoke . The “sparrow grass’ Virginia Howard mentions used to be--and probably still is--common usage in the English Midlands for asparagus .