Sentence examples for for a dame from inspiring English sources

"It's almost impossible for a dame to be ugly riding in a red roadster with the top down.

By the second page of Reed Arvin's smoldering new thriller, in inveterate detective-noir fashion, the main character has fallen hard for a dame.

Like a lot of classic heroes, he is mapping a place as he looks for a dame, uncovering her traces among the ghosts of the past, the banalities of the present and the uncertainties of the future.

Dame, properly a name of respect or a title equivalent to lady, surviving in English as the legal designation for the wife or widow of a baronet or knight or for a dame of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; it is prefixed to the given name and surname.

Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett were paperbacked, of course, but there were dozens of titles like "Exit for a Dame," by Richard Ellington (Pocket), "Benny Muscles In," by Peter Rabe (Gold Medal Books), "Report for a Corpse," by Henry Kane (Dell), and "Leave Her to Hell," by Fletcher Flora (Avon).

The Hard Goodbye's cover is a passable profile drawing of Marv but the art for A Dame To Kill For? Yechh.

"Sin City: A Dame To Kill For" hits theaters August 22.

But it's just such a swooning-heroine, easy-shorthand-for-a-fiery-tempered-dame sort of a description.

A character poster for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For featuring Eva Green was banned in America for being overly suggestive.

A character poster for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For featuring Eva Green was banned here in America for being overly suggestive.

For "There Is Nothing Like a Dame," translated into the second person, Ms. Peters became a little girl imitating Daddy as the melody took a downward turn.