How To Use Grande dame In A Sentence

The beginning and end of a reign; a journey from callow youth to protective grande dame. Christianity Today
The beginning and end of a reign; a journey from callow youth to protective grande dame. Christianity Today
The one substantive get of the evening, financial-regulation grande dame Elizabeth Warren, was rushed through a wonkfest that was heavy on jargon, but so lacking in background and context that it was hard to know what was going on. Parker Spitzer: no snap or crackle, and not pop
Vivienne Westwood is the grande dame of British fashion.
St Pancras has become the grande dame that her youth always promised. Times, Sunday Times

‘La Grande Dame’ is credited with inventing the riddling process called remuage, and adapting a piece of her own furniture into the first riddling table for that purpose.
After all, he later employed Lauren Bacall, another grande dame, and made her sweep floors throughout Dogville.
Here, the lobster palace society, the venue of the “butter-and-egg man” reigned supreme, and where luscious, giggling chorus girls, primadonnas, and grande dames of the stage, were wined and dined all night long. The Bachelor Life | Edwardian Promenade
Diesel, quite improbably, had always had a yen to act with the grande dame.
He was aware of suffering a little disappointment in Mrs. Westangle's entire failure to mention Miss Shirley, though he was aware that his disappointment was altogether unreasonable, and he more reasonably decided that if she knew anything of his arrival, or the form of it, she had too much of the making of a grande dame to be recognizant of it. Fennel and Rue
Grand is currently the grande dame of London cool. Times, Sunday Times
With February's biting winds sweeping down the Manhattan avenues, she transfers the idea to the grande dame of New York's museums, the Met.