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Sentence Examples
| Well, ma'am, what the eff would you know about an American white girl's hair? |
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| I respect my elders and always use sir or ma'am when addressing a stranger. |
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| It's in the ornamental frame on the mantelpiece in your own bedroom, ma'am. |
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| It will take about two hours to fill this prescription, ma'am, do you want to wait? |
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| They would have been on time, ma'am, I swear, if it hadn't been for my carelessness. |
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| Well, you see ma'am, we've got a few positive responses towards the notion that she may be hiding on your boat. |
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| The servants are talking, ma'am, and they're all saying that the murderer is on the loose. |
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| So, if I could put it this way, ma'am, it is not only the quantity of your reign we are celebrating today, it is the quality. |
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| I found her transformation from school ma'am to vamp ridiculous. |
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| So if they'd said: 'What do you think of the referendum ma'am?' and she'd said: 'Oh it's lovely', that would be very different. |
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| Just for your own benefit, ma'am, just try to keep your comments very general. |
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| I hope you gentlemen-and ma'am, I'm sorry-don't scare easily, because I'm going to tell you some horror stories. |
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| And one of our smartest residents said, 'Oh no, ma'am, that can't possibly be measles. |
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| I understand that ma'am, I understand that you wanna keep your children safe and you wanna keep yourself safe. |
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| I have called the doctor, and he is speaking to Mr. Cartwright now, ma'am. |
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| To which one can only reply, then maybe you should have formally made her a princess, ma'am, not a duchess. |
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| The guys just want 'wham, bam, thank-you ma'am.' They don't care about building a relationship. |
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| This kind of change caused Latin mea domina to eventually become the French madame and American English ma'am. |
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| Not to be disrespectful, ma'am, but out in the desert thisaway it ain't-isn't-just the place a body would expect to find a lady as pretty as you. |
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| Mr. Donald Carty: Yes, ma'am, it is accurate. |
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| He served in your husband's battalion, ma'am, by the way. |
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| Mr. Gary Sonnenberg: Well, ma'am, as I said, I've fished all my life. |
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| I can't tell you what the Germans are going to do, ma'am, but I can remark on your comment about the Germans being pivotal in this because of their funding issues and the fact that they'll have an election in the fall. |
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| Thank ya, ma'am, thank ya, thank ya, thank ya. He's a good dog. He likes ever'body. He won' be no bother. Thank ya, ma'am, thank ya, thank ya. |
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| I'm sorry ma'am, but your cat's gone on to the sweet by and by. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The general tendency is towards that thinning of the vowel that we get in mister for master and Miss Miggs's mim for ma'am. |
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| There will be the band and the arranging of the fairy lights and one thing or another, ma'am. |
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| But, ma'am, if you had seen her at the time that her mother was struck with palsy! |
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| Don't you think the pictures should be rehung to suit the new arrangement, ma'am? |
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| If I mought be so bold, ma'am, how far mought it be to a river they call the rockfish? |
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| I came to see, ma'am, whether you'd take me back, as I 'aven't got Baby now. |
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| The servants 'opes, ma'am, they can have permission to witness the ceremony. |
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| If you think that, ma'am, it's very cruel and unkind of you to send me away. |
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| I am in Mr. and Mrs. telfer's setting-room, I believe, ma'am? |
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| If airs and graces make an actress, ma'am, Magdalen's performance will astonish us all. |
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| It's a little horse, ma'am, with curly mane and a long tail. |
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| I love all the ladies, ma'am,' said Hugh, turning to the locksmith's wife. |
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| You are not so bewitched, ma'am, are you, as to remain with him of your own accord? |
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| I don't know that it will be a girl, yet, ma'am,' said my mother innocently. |
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| Why, I was never in Abilene longer than half an hour in my life, ma'am. |
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| Yes ma'am, I've read it and I've found out what a back number I've been. |
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| Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing. |
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| That how she was as handsome a lady, ma'am, as lived, no matter wheres, and a busk like marble itself. |
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| Dear me, ma'am, but when nobody will know it, how can it be indelicate? |
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| And I'd like to know what you mean, ma'am, by unregulated marriage. |
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| However, as you are aware, ma'am, I don't allow of even oversights towards you. |
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| Besides which, ma'am,' resumed Bitzer, while he was polishing the table, 'he looks to me as if he gamed. |
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| Why, ma'am, of all the young fellows I've seen out of the line, I think this fellow's the greenest. |
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| Why, ma'am, you know I told you you were accusing me wrongfully. |
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| I should think she'd a done something, shouldn't you, ma'am? |
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| But I came to you, ma'am, because you seemed to sort of need me most. |
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| If you are looking for my master, ma'am, he is walking towards the little copse. |
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| There is the connubial blindness, ma'am, which perhaps you may have observed in the course of your own experience, and which is a kind of wilful and self-bandaging blindness. |
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| Now, ma'am, salt-water is specifically thirty times heavier than fresh or river water, and a vessel in the German Ocean will not sink so deep as a vessel in the Thames. |
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| If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what would they do? |
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| Am I to drag my best dress through the dust, or loop it up, please, ma'am? |
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| Nay, ma'am,' said Stephen Blackpool, staunchly protesting against the words that had been used, and instinctively addressing himself to Louisa, after glancing at her face. |
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