Example sentences for: mistress

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

  • I suppose where these stories merge with the American scene--leaving out the other sex scandals, such as Robin Cook, the British foreign secretary, being forced by Tony Blair to choose between his mistress and his wife, as he was at an airport ready to fly off with his mistress (and he finally chose her, leaving his wife, later, to write a bitter newspaper account of their life)--is with the problem of campaign funding.

  • Of unknown origin, doxy is variously the low term for sweetheart or mistress, female tramp or beggar, plaything or paramour [toy boy?], even a baby.

  • In the midst of the 1996 presidential campaign, it revealed that Bob Dole had had a mistress.

  • It should be noted, however, that these singular odds and ends of regional accents are far from being useful for an actor aspiring to become the next Meryl Streep, mistress of the (virtual) dialect.

  • She spoke both Nahuatl and Maya, among other Indian languages, and quickly learned Spanish, becoming Cortés’s translator and also his mistress.


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