Sentence examples for of a dame from inspiring English sources

The children found the concept of a dame hilarious.

Only cyclist Sarah Storey was given the highest award of a dame or knighthood.

She's refreshingly fervid — you can feel the heart of a dame beating within the damsel in distress.

As we waded through your 500 submissions, there were sentences that, for better or worse, jumped out at us, made the eyes do a double-take, like the sight of a dame that – ahh, never mind.

The vamp is a society vampire; a real humdinger of a dame.

She turned down the offer of becoming a Dame of the British Empire because, she said, there is no British Empire – adding that it was "a bit pantomimey".

She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a Dame of The Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem and was active in numerous local historical, art and women's clubs.

My pathological fear of audience participation can probably be traced back to an early experience, as a teenager in Australia, of seeing a Dame Edna show.

She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1957 and a Dame of the British Empire in 1958.

Dame Elizabeth Buther-Sloss, the president of the family division of the high court, becomes a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.

Veteran actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, becomes a dame.