Sentence examples for first dame from inspiring English sources

I think I was the first dame for about seven years in Belfast who wasn't gay.

But the more immediate suggestion is that she now replaces Pendleton as the first dame of track cycling.

It comes as a surprise to learn that this Victorian jewel is staging its first ever pantomime and that the veteran Roy Hudd is playing his first dame.

The outgoing governor general, Quentin Bryce, is the first dame and the incoming governor general, Peter Cosgrove, will be the first knight.

"First, Dame Janet considered both of their comprehensive statements given to the Pollard review and second, understandably, these journalists' knowledge of Savile's inappropriate conduct at the BBC was not contemporaneous".

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is from Rivers State, and she has been vocal on one side of the dispute, acting as the President's proxy.

Among today's headlines from Nigeria, we read of three young men who died at Abuja's International Conference Centre while scrambling to get a share of the 10,000 bags of rice being distributed by the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, as part of the anniversary celebrations.

Another initiative of the Brown administration was seconding Dame Joan Bakewell as an advisor on issues facing older Britons, and, in this area as well, television has made a conscious effort to be less ageist in its choice of presenters and subject-matter.

President Sarkozy famously switched first-dames in mid-administration, beginning with the ferocious Cecilia and ending with the beaming and beautiful Carla.

She is not, though, the first woman: Dame Barbara Mills was DPP for six years from 1992.

Humphries, a dandy and a Dadaist, first launched Dame Edna at the somnolent suburban burgers of Melbourne in the mid-fifties.