How To Use Ma'am In A Sentence
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`The monument, ma'am ," intoned Bunbury, rocking back slightly on his heels.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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‘You may indeed, ma'am,’ Ben replied, ‘She is in excellent health, as are my Father and sister.’
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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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It was a terrible strain on me to keep her at school, ma'am, and again and _again_ I've thought I couldn't stand it, what with her being in the shop only in the afternoon, and the washing, and trying to keep her clothes always nice; though she's been as good as
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
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‘Why thank you, ma'am,’ Pic chimed as he acted like he was curtsying.
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‘I'm sorry, ma'am,’ Elizabeth instantly apologized, ‘I didn't mean to implore.’
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What would you like me to do, ma'am?" asked the be wildered human.
Stalling
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Yes, ma'am," drawled the sheriff, "in them history days things was fixed up to excuse animal doin's, kind of neater and easier and more becomin 'than they are now.
Snow-Blind
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When the case began, the court clerk may not have gone as far as curtsying, but she still addressed her Royal highness as ‘Ma'am’.
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‘Yes, ma'am,’ said our director, grinning like a loon.
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She stopped short; and then added shyly, with a kind of anxiousness in her wide dark gaze: "An expression, ma'am -- for Heaven.
V. V.'s Eyes
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‘He's already gone to shore, ma'am,’ said Peter.
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I'm sure," Maggie said, "I'm doing no worse than I did, ma'am, and you usedn't to complain.
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
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i only got, baptismal certificate, birthcertificate, Transcript of record at cedulla and also school ID. is that enough po bah? salamat po. additional question po pala, ilang days po bah ang e allow ng bureau of immigration in taking vacation inside asia? from philippines po ako and im planning to visit my girlfriend in malaysia. kaya po bang 1month? ma'am/Sir
Intiendes
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‘Thank you, ma'am,’ I say, taking a chomp out of a cookie.
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The assembled news pack sniggered quietly as the school ma'am got her just deserts.
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It could be funny and a touch mischievous - one self-regarding, supposedly glamorous female TV anchor frostily asked her to desist from addressing her as ‘ma'am’ during a live interview.
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And where were you before these events, ma'am?
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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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And where were you before these events, ma'am?
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‘Good evening, ma'am,’ the plump elevator attendant chirped.
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Should I bring out your evening dress, ma'am?
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‘There's no secret, ma'am,’ Mr. Revere said, ‘we were speaking only of the famous beauty of Boston.’
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Yes, ma'am, you have a-- that is what we call a follow-up.
CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008
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Dropping the pencil abruptly, she looks up at her hoary teacher, ‘Ma'am?’
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He had no information more than he had given, but he bravely journalized, "Mr. Glover and everybody, ma'am.
The Daughter of a Magnate
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`The monument, ma'am ," intoned Bunbury, rocking back slightly on his heels.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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He's a bully feller sure, ma'am, an 'I ain't got a word agin him.
The Forfeit
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Not until I have told you... I would rather ask you than the Professor, ma'am.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Mr. Dubster then walked up to her, and, with an air conspicuously aukward, solemnly said, 'So you want to dance, ma'am?'
Camilla
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I have called the doctor, and he is speaking to Mr. Cartwright now, ma'am.
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Should I bring out your evening dress, ma'am?
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Ma'am, you'd hardly believe that I was once the owner of a great pavilion tent that was the attraction of the fair.
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It's in the ornamental frame on the mantelpiece in your own bedroom, ma'am.
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Would you repeat that please, ma'am?
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‘I shall wish to question each of you separately, ma'am,’ he said, and I nodded.
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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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If I couldn't get ten pounds for him, just like that, with a thank-you - ma'am, I'm a sucker that don't know a terrier from a greyhound.
CHAPTER 1
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I respect my elders and always use sir or ma'am when addressing a stranger.
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– "Dear Ma'am, and what's the matter?" says I. – "Matter enough, (says she) don't you see my bandbox is wet through, and my best bonnet here spoiled, besides my lady's, and all by the rain coming in through that gallery window, that you might have got mended if you'd had any sense, Thady, all the time we were in town in the winter.
Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
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‘Why thank you, ma'am,’ Pic chimed as he acted like he was curtsying.
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Why, yes, ma'am, I believe we were heading that way anyway.
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Please be so kind as to remove your shoon, ma'am," he ordered.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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I worked at Lady Marg'ret 'All, ma'am, where the young lady is studyin'.
Kathleen
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Ma'am, if you must know, I wasn't very trustful to begin with.
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Over there on the left, ma'am. At the booth with the poster.
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I am called Porson, ma'am, but I have another name.
A Rough Shaking
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‘I assure you, ma'am, I'm capable of doing most things you put before me,’ Enela explained confidently.
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I dress in a way I'd call butch when I'm wearing clothes I feel good in, I fuck in a masculine way, I go by Sir in the leather community and wonder where the matron is when someone says Ma'am … but I wonder how much of that is sexual persona and how much is my essence.
Ellie Lumpesse: A Pretentious Pervert
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Why, yes, ma'am, I believe we were heading that way anyway.
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The bark of what we call asp-wood, ma'am, which is a kind of sallow; they lay up great quantities of it in the autumn as a provision for winter, when they are frozen up for some months.
The Settlers in Canada
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This could never happen again .... duh, uhhhh, where's the leak ma'am?
Honore dismisses talk of Senate run
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The weary traveller asked, ‘Ma'am, could you please move your dog.’
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I'm sure," Maggie said, "I'm doing no worse than I did, ma'am, and you usedn't to complain.
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
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It would be a lonely life for a woman, ma'am, and a scarey life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night.
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And, in fact, out in California, a lot of the women I spoke to out there seem to have, you know, a particular antipathy towards the term ma'am.
Please Don't Call Me 'Ma'am'
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Ma'am, what would you have me do to atone for my sin?
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Not until I have told you... I would rather ask you than the Professor, ma'am.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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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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`The monument, ma'am ," intoned Bunbury, rocking back slightly on his heels.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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It's in the ornamental frame on the mantelpiece in your own bedroom, ma'am.
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For your information ma'am, the recognized scientific community has confirmed many times that there is no genetic marker that predestines an individual to be homosexual.
Gay soldier: Obama's 'don't ask' pledge a reprinted IOU
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‘It's raining on the bench too, ma'am,’ he told her.
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‘You may indeed, ma'am,’ Ben replied, ‘She is in excellent health, as are my Father and sister.’
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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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‘There's no secret, ma'am,’ Mr. Revere said, ‘we were speaking only of the famous beauty of Boston.’
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Yes, ma'am," said Asahel staring a little; -- "there's red raspberries, and black raspberries, and low-bush blackberries and high blackberries, and huckleberries, and bearberries, and cranberries; besides nuts, and apples.
Hills of the Shatemuc
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Thank you, ma'am, I shall be very happy, if grandmamma is willing.
Oldtown Folks
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Don't be alarmed, ma'am; as soon as we're under weigh we'll hoist the cow up, and get the piano down.
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‘He's already gone to shore, ma'am,’ said Peter.
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I do apologise for my ruffianly appearance, ma'am.
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Not until I have told you... I would rather ask you than the Professor, ma'am.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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But he continued with his usual steadiness; 'Why, that was but a unked morning we was together so long, ma'am, in my new summerhouse.
Camilla
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Yes, ma'am," said Asahel staring a little; – "there's red raspberries, and black raspberries, and low-bush blackberries and high blackberries, and huckleberries, and bearberries, and cranberries; besides nuts, and apples.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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‘I'm sorry, ma'am,’ Jude apologized, putting his head down.
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I had me doubts about the bunch from the beginning, ma'am, when they came a-sneakin 'up to me fire, and eatin' of me grub; and when that other gazabo dropped from the trees, sure, I was certain of it.
A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts
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‘I assure you, ma'am, I'm capable of doing most things you put before me,’ Enela explained confidently.
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In science news: I recently used the word "angstrom" in a humorous context, and many people laughed, and some people sneered (mostly engineers), and the wonderful Melissa Evans just gave me the facts, ma'am:
SFGate: Top News Stories
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I found her transformation from school ma'am to vamp ridiculous.
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Oh! Jem, he'll think as I do, ma'am," said Mrs White at once; "it isn't _Jem_.
White Lilac; or the Queen of the May
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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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‘Certainly, ma'am,’ said the royal doctor, bowing.
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• Sad news from Upper Bucklebury, childhood home of ma'am-to-be Kate Middleton: the minibus tours of the village and surroundings, taking in, among other formative locations, the church where she was baptised, the car park of her alma mater Marlborough, the Spar corner shop and, perplexingly, Stonehenge, have been cancelled.
Esther Addley's Diary
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May I see your license and registration, Ma'am?
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Carmon Rosalind Maitfield at your service, ma'am.
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‘It's raining on the bench too, ma'am,’ he told her.
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And then, ma'am, you know I've been kind o 'hopin' --
Little Folks Astray
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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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Carmon Rosalind Maitfield at your service, ma'am.
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The bark of what we call asp-wood, ma'am, which is a kind of sallow; they lay up great quantities of it in the autumn as a provision for winter, when they are frozen up for some months.
The Settlers in Canada
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May I see your license and registration , ma'am?
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‘Yes ma'am,’ the sprite mocked before flittering and tinkling out of the door and joining the numerous other sprites who had finished waking their masters.
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‘I'm sorry, ma'am,’ Elizabeth instantly apologized, ‘I didn't mean to implore.’
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‘I shall wish to question each of you separately, ma'am,’ he said, and I nodded.
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I have called the doctor, and he is speaking to Mr. Cartwright now, ma'am.
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‘Certainly, ma'am,’ said the royal doctor, bowing.
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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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‘I'm sorry, ma'am,’ Jude apologized, putting his head down.
