Sentence examples for mamma in from inspiring English sources

My poor mamma, in despair, suggested that I try for the diplomatic.

Dining out with Mamma in an elegant restaurant, the boy taunts her with hints of incestuous fantasy.

It's memorable because of the great family atmosphere – you had the Italian mamma in her kitchen – and how cheap it was.

Evocative lines like, "I ain't called my mamma in a month of Sundays/ She'd smell the whiskey through that phone," outshine the cheap catchphrases that mar the rest of Rice's debut.

Alongside playing Alice, she took on an unfaithful sibling in Benoît Jacquot's 3 Hearts (due in the UK in August), a volatile Italian mamma in Asia Argento's Incompresa and a grief-stricken mother in Wim Wenders's 3D melodrama Everything Will Be Fine, a two-part shoot that book-ended all the other movies.

Prosecutors and public defenders applauded when she was handed her certificate; a policewoman hugged her, and a child shouted triumphantly, "Yeah, Mamma!" In Seattle, as in drug courts across the country, the stern face of criminal justice is being redrawn, and emotions are often on the surface.

It happened with Moulin Rouge in 2001, Chicago (a best picture Oscar winner) in 2002, Mamma Mia in 2008, and Les Misérables in 2012.

When I was in Mamma Mia! in the West End, he saw it 35 times.

Not to mention that scene in Mamma Mia! in which he bobs towards his fiancee across the Aegean, astride a jet-ski, half naked but without a hint of torso jiggle.

As the Mitcham quote suggests, there are about as many gumbos as there are mammas in Louisiana: the internet is full of regional variations, always lovingly described as the original, the authentic, the best.

Stork was known to fellow followers as Ma Shanti Bhadra, and was also one of the three "Big Mammas" in Rajneeshpuram.