Sentence examples for played hostess from inspiring English sources

Dr. Coffey played hostess the other day, bringing tea and cookies to the round glass table in the dining area.

Resilient and resourceful, the family thrived on a farm in upstate New York, where Lucie churned butter, traded with Indians, and played hostess to Talleyrand.

In the 1970s, when the international set discovered the charms of Morocco's haute bohemia, the princess played hostess to them all at the house.

Madame Chiang visited only occasionally, but when she did she reportedly frequented the antique shops, flanked by Chinese bodyguards, and often played hostess to Debra Paget, the movie star, and Styles Bridges, New Hampshire's long-term Senator.

When she got back from her China tour in 1992, she played hostess to her accompanying press corps at Downing Street and did her usual regal thing of asking everyone a brief individual question.

Over the course of an April evening, as Ms. Morgan played hostess, a range of people -- most of them single and in their 30's -- ambled in and out of an East Side apartment, eating, drinking and eyeing one other.

"I'd feel like I had to play hostess".

Later, she will get dressed to play hostess to important visitors during the performance.

Her recent book, "Domestic Bliss," puts a fun, flirty spin on throwback topics such as playing hostess and wrapping presents.

A one-woman play by Sandra Ryan Heyward starring Kathleen Turner as the flamboyant actress on a night in 1947 as she plays hostess at a party for President Harry S. Truman.

Throughout the 1930s, as her friends moved on, Elizabeth continued to play hostess to increasingly unsavory types, desperately trying to hang on to her madcap youth.