How to Use grande dame in a Sentence

grande dame

noun

• Nixon skipped her gallery — the art was too edgy — but Halpert was already a grande dame.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
• Historical grande dames don’t seem to be her forte.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
• As for where to stay, you'll be spoiled for choice with all the magnificent grande dames in town.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
• Focusing on these offers a path forward for the grande dame of pageantry.
  — Hilary Levey Friedman, Fortune, 6 June 2018
• Even the city's grande dame hotels are getting into the wellness game.
  — Elizabeth Nicholas, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2018
• There’s a Loire Valley château, reborn as a grande dame for the modern era.
  — Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2020
• Kirschenbaum was the grande dame of a group of hard-core fans who would flock to the backstage door for autographs and chats.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Athena, meanwhile, is a grande dame with an inability to shake anything off.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2026
• Founded in 1845, Lachaume is the grande dame of Parisian floristry.
  — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• LuPone is Broadway’s reigning grande dame, with a big voice and an even bigger mouth.
  — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
• Berlin isn’t known for waterfront estates—but this bucolic grande dame changes that.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2025
• Kiplagat, the grande dame of the road at 41, has a glittering resume.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
• So far, so Agatha Christie, although that grande dame of whodunits stuck to human crime-solvers.
  — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
• The grande dame of Alto Adige chardonnay.
  — Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Finding a donut like that at a grande dame like the Fairmont was all the more incongruous.
  — Noah Kaufman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2019
• But for now, this grande dame is ready to throw her doors wide open, fill up her social calendar, and bask in the glare of flashbulbs once again.
  — Elissaveta M. Brandon, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2024
• Agnes Gund—or Aggie, as most everyone calls her—is the art world’s de facto grande dame.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 June 2018
• The grande dame of the event is Jean Overstreet, 89, a longtime devotee.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2021
• Elaine Stritch, the grande dame of Broadway musicals, performed there, too.
  — Reggie Nadelson, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• The grande dame of showcase homes, one of the oldest fundraising events of its kind in the country, is going digital.
  — Bonnie McCarthy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• Love this French grande dame just quietly finishing her meal while all this violent chaos goes on around her.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2026
• That terrace is no longer open, but the new owners launched a side terrace this summer, with a handful of tables that look out to the grande dame.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The Bizarre Bazaar is the grande dame of Richmond-area holiday markets.
  — Karri Peifer, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
• And who can resist a visit to Asheville’s grande dame, the Biltmore Estate?
  — Shayla Martin, AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
• She has been known as the grande dame and social arbiter of the show, living in a Potomac-area mansion with her husband.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• There, deep in the recesses of a priceless landmark, a designer—or a grande dame—can work in peace and summon the forces of the past.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 27 Feb. 2019
• In a statement, the brand acknowledges Kusama as a modern-day grande dame and an iconic name in both the design and art worlds.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 11 June 2021
• For over thirty years, this Back Bay grande dame has been Boston's go-to place for an old-school steakhouse dinner.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2018
• Katherine O’Dell, who died at the age of fifty-eight, the same age her daughter is now, was a grande dame of the Irish theatre.
  — Sarah Resnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
• The Hotel Marysville was considered the grande dame of downtown buildings in the town that is among the state’s oldest.
  — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 16 June 2024