Sentence examples for great dame from inspiring English sources

Our mother's highest compliment about another woman was to say, "She's a great Dame".

"She was just a great dame," Tom Brokaw, a friend, said.

We whiz past the house of the opera great Dame Nellie Melba.

I mean that in the nicest possible way, to use a disclaimer often employed by the great Dame Edna Everage.

According to the Times of London, her grandson stumbled upon the stash of twenty-seven half-hour tapes by accident: a fitting legacy from the great dame of mystery.

Cardinale called Yager the "great dame" of Larchmont Village.

So what next for one of cinema's great dames?

May 21 at 7 30 p.m. $12; members, $7. "Great Dames," a cabaret show with Christine Pedi.

Berwick Kaler can lay claim to being one of the great dames of the modern panto era.

Robert Mitchum was at the studio with Ryan (they made several films together, including "The Racket") alongside those great dames Ida Lupino and Gloria Grahame.

In some of the dining-room scenes I literally had two of the great dames of the world on either side of me.