Example sentences for: mistress

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

  • Influenced in later life by the Catholic piety of Madame de Maintenon, his mistress and subsequently secret wife, Louis put an end to religious freedom for Protestants by revoking the Edict of Nantes.

  • Women did all this work, and they did it unceasingly for their households, which could become famous because of it, if the mistress of the house was a talented fabric designer and had skilled help.

  • Then he was arrested for stalking his former mistress, Joy Silverman, and charged with extortion, interstate racketeering, and blackmail, among other crimes.

  • In his Preface, Thirty-five argues that the pejorative attitudes towards women derive from the criminal's “assessment of every woman according to her eligibility as a mistress” (p.

  • Europa sits innocently on the back of a tame bull while a handmaiden tends to her mistress's unruly hair.


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