Sentence examples for an old dame from inspiring English sources

That is why "Sunset Boulevard" begins with a corpse, bobbing in a pool, and proceeds to an old dame who keeps a stuffed ape in a casket, and that is why Cronenberg introduces us to the delightful Benjie (Evan Bird), the star of the hit comedy "Bad Babysitter," who is fresh out of rehab and calls his agent a "Jew faggot".

He records meeting Seacole in his 1857 work A Culinary Campaign and describes Seacole as "an old dame of a jovial appearance, but a few shades darker than the white lily".

At a birthday party, an elderly uncle spills noodles into the cleavage of a busty old dame, before making a Carry On style attempt to tidy her up, leading to his exquisite head-wobbling outburst: "I am trying to clean and you are calling me arsehole!" Not even a blacked up Peter Sellers could match that.

"Getting that amount of land with a grand old dame of a house in Singapore is extremely difficult".

Yet every story in her arsenal of seamlessly stitched personal anecdotes is illustrated with body language that erupts like lightning out of words spoken in the gravelly voice of a tough old dame with a tender heart.

Here he is, an aide-de-camp to General Washington, explaining England's tyranny to the woman he was courting: "She is an obstinate old dame, and seems determined to ruin her whole family, rather than to let Miss America go on flirting it with her new lovers, with whom, as giddy young girls often do, she eloped in contempt of her mother's authority".

But from the oak door that opens to the smallish foyer to the dark-beamed living room, like a wrinkled old dame, it needs a facelift.

The Democratic Party in Queens ended Tuesday night exposed as a tottering old dame, her inability to push a loyal — if severely charisma-challenged — son into Congress testament to her infirmities.

In one corner is an away-with-the-fairies auntie; in another a revolutionary old dame.

Elise Bauer began her blog in 2003, which makes the site a stately old dame in internet years.

A grand old dame of the Athenian stage pulled her hair out in horror, literally (I've never seen anyone do this before).