Sentence examples for classy dame from inspiring English sources
This Saratoga is one classy dame, I thought.
There is, as there must be in every private-eye story, a classy dame -- or so she seems.
She walks into Fry's hotel room in a form-fitting suit and a picture hat, smoking a cigarette, like the requisite classy dame in a Sam Spade story.
In their rush to employ the seldom-used "governors general" plural, reporters initially thought Abbott had made another sexist gaffe and was referring to Bryce as "a classy dame", but it soon became apparent he was updating the honours system.
The classy dame (Lori Funk), in this case the author in question's wife, makes her entrance in 1940s-style widow's weeds, designed by Chloe Chapin, and an oversize broad-brimmed hat.
"The 39 Steps" was originally a big, serious, classic 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie about spies between the wars, dashing heroes and classy dames.
There was Nan Kempner on July 12 at the Yves Saint Laurent show, sitting a few chairs away from Catherine Deneuve and Lauren Bacall, the sort of classy dames who have been called "broads" and don't cry about it.
He falls for a semi-classy dame (Barbara Stanwyck as a blonde), a client's neglected wife, and they scheme to murder her husband for the accident insurance money.
Everything works in that expressive honorific combo of Dame (both a title of respect and a description of a classy lady) and Judi (unfussy, brisk, down-to-earth): Dench is a star exactly because of that blend of class and realness.
