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
• But Zdebski said he was warned that Brenden Rice had some prima donna in him, was selfish.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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, chicagotribune.com, 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
• Two characters seemingly tossed in to further stimulate the plot are the obsequious hotel bellhop (Robert Moniz) and the ambitious local prima donna (Lori Kelley).
  — Tom Titus, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• But Mira turns out to be far less of a prima donna than her fellow actors, as Vikander’s subtle, sensitive performance gradually reveals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
• Jackson’s is an essentially sympathetic account of de Gaulle in London—which does not keep de Gaulle from seeming even more of an egotist and a prima donna than his previous biographers had made him.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• By delivering a pitch-perfect performance as a fire-breathing prima donna, Welch also poked fun at her reputation (fairly earned or not) for being difficult to work with.
  — Oliver Gettell, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2023
• The bitter ex-wife who hires him to ruin her ex-husband’s favorite team, the vapid influencer, the prima donna athlete — nearly everybody embodies a stereotype that eventually gets subverted.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024