How to Use prima donna in a Sentence

prima donna

noun

• We are looking for team players, not prima donnas.
• The actress is a temperamental prima donna.
• The five-star prima donna busts and the unrated late bloomers full of heart.
  — Fletcher Page, Cincinnati.com, 26 July 2019
• Even the indoor swimming pool was made to look fit for a prima donna.
  — Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• The fun isn’t so much about Dee Dee as watching Streep play a faltering prima donna to the hilt.
  — Charles McNulty Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• The entire crew is ready to start working, but Gladys is being a prima donna.
  — Rachel Manteuffel, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• In this life-force of a musical, even the help gets to shine like so many sequins on a prima donna’s finery.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
• As a portrait of an artist as a prima donna, a pioneer and, yes, a bona fide genius, the movie is still worth its weight in wire hangers.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2024
• But Zdebski said he was warned that Brenden Rice had some prima donna in him, was selfish.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
• Daniels had appeared at the club in the past, and Saccal wondered if the recent fame might have changed her — if a prima donna would show up with demands and attitude.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Fitzgerald wondered if teammates looked at him as a prima donna.
  — Doug Haller, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
• Bertolucci fans beware: The director comes across here as a pompous and careless prima donna.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Knicks, please don’t trade away scrappy players for prima donnas like Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, etc.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 June 2024
• The company’s prima donna soprano, Trista Moldovan, exhibits a world-class voice, even though hers is meant to be a secondary talent.
  — Tom Titus, Daily Pilot, 15 July 2019
• The company’s prima donna soprano, Trista Moldovan, exhibits a world-class voice, even though hers is meant to be a secondary talent.
  — Tom Titus, Daily Pilot, 15 July 2019
• Some players even act just like prima donna magazine writers and fight with their editors over every word.
  — Amos Barshad, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• By being one of the few premium wide receivers who is not a prima donna and takes serious pride in his dirty work (including blocking), Jones is one of the NFL’s most respected players.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 13 June 2018
• The situation Tuesday had tough guys around baseball – and less tough guys (writers) who work at keyboards – shaking their heads at what many thought was prima donna behavior by Strasburg when his team needs him the most.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Some might call it retrograde for a work from 1996, but its indebtedness to Puccini suits a story about a wistful prima donna in the early nineteen-hundreds.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, chicagotribune.com, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, chicagotribune.com, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, chicagotribune.com, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, ajc, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, ajc, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — John Dubow, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
• Burly and a little unkempt, Madden earned a place in America’s heart with a likable, unpretentious style that was refreshing in a sports world of spiraling salaries and prima donna stars.
  — Josh Dubow, ajc, 29 Dec. 2021
• There is soprano Audrey Luna as the prima donna, whose stratospheric high notes are both an expression of her star power and a token of her inability to blend in with the others.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018