How to Use doyenne in a Sentence

doyenne

noun

• The flaxen-haired doyenne held a high tea in his honor the evening prior.
  — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 23 Oct. 2019
• Was the magic the sparkling dining room, being in the presence of the doyenne of reviewers, or the food?
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• Billboard How a mom with an online list became the doyenne of things to do with kids in Marin.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
• The once ever-chatty doyenne would remain silent up to 22 hours a day.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
• Vera Wang has long been dubbed the doyenne of the bridal industry—and for good reason.
  — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Apr. 2021
• Of special note, the May Madness sale, with donations from the area's doyennes, is an all-day event.
  — David Keeps, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2011
• Here's another thing Amazon Alexa, that doyenne of home and hearth, can do: Cut down on food waste.
  — Barb Darrow, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2017
• Yuletide longing spins into pop gold for a 1960s pop doyenne.
  — Maura Johnston, Esquire, 24 Nov. 2016
• But, perhaps, no G-7 leader has been a greater beneficiary than Merkel, the doyenne of the group.
  — Matthew Lee, ajc, 10 June 2021
• Edna Lewis, the doyenne of American Southern cooking, taught that listening to a cake is the best way to know when it’s done.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 3 Apr. 2017
• Amy Goldman, the doyenne of the heirloom seed movement, may be the best melon grower east (or west) of the Mississippi.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• So how did fashion’s favorite unsmiling doyenne end up dabbling in the fine arts?
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2019
• And just last year, the lifestyle doyenne hired the Home Edit to organize her pantry and children’s playroom, among other rooms.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 20 June 2018
• For years, Amy Grant was the doyenne of contemporary Christian music.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 July 2021
• Imelda Staunton, a doyenne of stage and screen so accomplished that her list of awards has its own lengthy Wikipedia page, seemed a solid choice to portray the monarch in her golden years.
  — Time, 5 Nov. 2022
• And who better to be your guiding light to hosting a summer soirée than domestic doyenne Martha Stewart?
  — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 4 May 2021
• But now, the doyenne of Silver Lake real estate is appealing to a higher authority: the Vicar of Christ.
  — Peter Kiefer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
• The doyenne has encouraged Benedicte, who has befriended Bjørnvig over time, to visit him in Bonn.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• The McQueen atelier finds inspiration from all pockets of the world, from sea anemones to storm clouds, but sometimes, as the Hollywood doyenne shows, all roads lead back to home.
  — Alice Newbold, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2022
• Ummi Abdulla, the doyenne of Mappila cooking has invited me to her home for a bite.
  — Sona Bahadur, Quartz India, 17 Sep. 2020
• The Washington doyenne Sally Quinn was recalling with horror one of the nights following the 2016 election.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
• Other firsts at sea include products from doyenne of punk fashion Vivienne Westwood and footwear from Kat Maconie.
  — Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Lifestyle doyennes like Gwyneth Paltrow and her pristine white jeans (genes?) seem retro compared to down-to-earth and self-deprecating Chrissy Teigen.
  — Elizabeth Greenwood, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2017
• As such, the first bridal collection for the new label explores the techniques that originally earned Wang her position as the doyenne of all things wedding.
  — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2021
• Shut out of New York high society, on account of their being Jewish, the sisters made the most of their ostracism by becoming doyennes of liberty.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• Claudia Roden, the doyenne of Jewish cooking, says fish was customary at Jewish tables from the earliest of times.
  — Kimberly Winston and Yonat Shimron, Houston Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2018
• In other words, Rogers is designing for something like a Zoomer doyenne, for whom embracing this feed-mind exploration that darts from idea to idea is a new way of being cultured.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2022
• Nancy Silverton, the Los Angeles doyenne of all things pasta—and, for that matter, pizza and bread—makes ingenious use of leftover bread to thicken a sauce of olive oil, garlic and chile flakes.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
• The doyenne of the Kardashian family has made her children household names and commands an army of fans who follow her every move on social media and television.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2018
• Nevins’ 2017 exit from HBO was publicly positioned as a voluntary retirement, but the truth, which still stings, is that she was pushed out, a doyenne whose power came to be questioned and resented by the C-suite suits who signed her checks.
  — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024