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• Every kid wanted to be like him but no dame wanted to be married to him.2015, Richard A. Lertzman, William J. Birnes, The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney, Gallery Books, page 270. From the entry Huckleberry Finn
• "Surely after all these years the dame must have known she was divorced.2000, Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder, page 172. From the entry undivorce
• She has been buying (under my guidance) new clothes and she looks quite the grande dame.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 141. From the entry grande dame
• It's crazy, a stud like you paying that dame that you told me about, double sawbucks.1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Ratso (Dustin Hoffman). From the entry double sawbuck
• At the dancing blokes always made jokes if they knew a dame was from The Undesirables.1968, Gordon M. Williams, From Scenes Like These, William Morrow and Company, page 121. From the entry undesirable
• "Beatniks," snorted one grande dame as she pushed her way toward her chauffeur-driven limousine.1966 August 19, “Resorts: Happening at the Hamptons”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28…. From the entry grande dame
• This whole trouble is on account of a dame reads a book.1950, Albert Mannheimer, Born Yesterday, spoken by Harry Brock. From the entry broad
• "If either of them dames had a bag like that I'd have remembered.1950, Arthur William Upfield, The Bachelors of Broken Hill, The Crime Club, page 73. From the entry nappy bag
• The old dame says as how she'll be able to do it cushty.1937, James Curtis, There Ain't No Justice, page 239. From the entry cushty
• Then I catches the eye of the stiff-necked dame with the straight nose and the gun-metal hair.1918, Sewell Ford, chapter VII, in The House of Torchy, Grosset & Dunlap, page 98. From the entry stabby
• Dame Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer and businesswoman.2014 July 15, Ann Brooks, Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry punk
• The fair dame was able to snathe the best candidates— She pathed good souls to the noble way and educates.2013, Percarus, Percarus. From the entry snathe
• Jack (Tripp) specialised; daming was what he did.2013 March 21, Charles Nevin, “Tripp”, in Jack: Stories of Britain’s Favourite Name, Random House, published 2013. From the entry daming
• Dame Fortuna has had her franking privileges revoked.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman). From the entry Confucius
• Cheery hellbrew of cops, dames, gats and slugging.1952 January 30, Punch, page 186. From the entry hellbrew
• The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.1949, The Atlantian, volume 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, page 41. From the entry drop
• She looked like she'd be a hard dame to make.1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 16, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. From the entry make
• She'd be a hard dame to win.1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 16, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. From the entry make
• PW also identified a "love that hath been alain away at the go o' her he loved adeep, the dame o' him.2012, Daniel B. Shea, The Patience of Pearl: Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran, page 150. From the entry adeep
• Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands.2002, Louis Auchincloss, “The Heiress”, in Manhattan Monologues, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry philistine
• Father Freddy Denman, 51, had just appeared as the dame in Goody Two Shoes which he organised at Sparkwell, near Plymouth, in December.1998 February 18, “News file”, in Evening Mail, Birmingham, West Midlands, →OCLC, page 13, column 2. From the entry baddy two shoes
• So why is it that Rand can't swing an Oath Rod without making a cuddlicious dame with fantastic powers fall in love with him?1996, Troy N. Terry, “Great new Rand/3 Wives theory”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet). From the entry cuddlicious
• Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18. From the entry rumour
• Time was, the author assures us, "when no gallant knight or gentle dame could aspire to good breeding unless perfectly conversant with floriography."1965, The Illustrated London News, volume 246, number 2, London: Illustrated London News and Sketch, →OCLC, page xvi, column 2. From the entry floriography
• Our troops learned French quickly, and the street echoed to "Voolay voo cusha avick mores," and the dames rapidly grasped Tommy's French.1939, Patrick A. Meade, Born to Trouble, page 158. From the entry voolay
• Who’s the dames with an over abundance of frivolosity, awing the old trail hitters of Petticoat lane to shame by wearing their “Phoenix” rolled down?1915 September 30, Poinsett & Son, “Mr. Poinsett Says”, in Florence Bulletin, volume 28, number 29, Florence, Kan.. From the entry frivolosity
• Dame Naida Glavish did not mince her words when she addressed the newly elected Waitematā Local Board yesterday about the location of the National Erebus Memorial.2022 November 23, Joseph Los’e, “Dame Naida Glavish doesn’t mince words about Erebus Memorial”, in Shayne Currie, editor, The New Zealand…. From the entry mince one's words
• Dame suspected that Joey was one of the occasional still-confused youngsters of meta-gender: always outside any identifiable boundary and stuck being uncomfortable in their own skin.2014, Jason Miller, Anisha Datta, Mr. Dame Among the Pages: An Uncommon Guide to Common Literature, →ISBN. From the entry meta-gender
• He surveyed the chamber filled with vibrant silks and the white powdered wigs adorning old beaux and grande dames, cerused and patched in the prevailing fashion.2011, Emery Lee, Fortune's Son. From the entry cerused
• The revolving door metes out the aromas as two platinum-grey old dames totter in, rouged up to the eyeballs, expelling several door-compartmentsful of intense coffee aroma onto the street.2004, The Hungarian Quarterly - Issues 173-176, page 71. From the entry compartmentful
• Yet here she is, turning out the performance of her life, in a new picture, Breakfast at Tiffany's, as – what the Americans call – 'a real kookie dame!'1961 July, Photoplay, New York, N.Y.: Macfadden Publications, →OCLC, page 54. From the entry kooky

Meaning of dame

1. noun Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
2. noun A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
3. noun In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.

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How do you use dame in a sentence?

Dame is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The Ealing dames ensured that boys were properly dressed and cared for them when sick, and they also ran the tuck shops.”

What is a short sentence with dame?

“Dame Edith Sitwell”

What does dame mean?

Dame means usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.