What's the difference between gentlemen and ladies?

Gentlemen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Gentleman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
  • (2) He could say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated Isis,’ and it wouldn’t sound good, OK, all right?
  • (3) Watson asked if the donations from Grugeon and McCloy were disguised, “because they were both gentlemen who could make money if they had a favourable decision in respect of Wallalong”.
  • (4) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (5) 2.05am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th We have a pitcher's duel ladies and gentlemen!
  • (6) Rooney, Terry, Giggs … Footballers are hardly the gentlemen of your day, are they, Ron?
  • (7) At the Cambridge Corn Exchange last week, the two gentlemen blocking my view of Damien Rice were about 55.
  • (8) The TV ad campaign features the Sapeurs – men who make the transformation from farmers, taxi drivers and labourers to cigar-wielding gentlemen dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits – of the Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville coming together after a day's work.
  • (9) Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to Twitter… Thaddeus Stewart (@thaddeustewart) Ladies and gentlemen: please welcome the lovely @kristenlisa8 to twitter.
  • (10) They have a sort of stubbornness.” He later deals with hecklers at a Fifa HQ press event : “Listen, gentlemen, we are not in a bazaar .
  • (11) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
  • (12) I half expected it to end with the Houser brothers dressed as Papa Lazarou from League of Gentlemen staring into the camera and whispering seductively, "you all live in Los Santos now".
  • (13) In India, teachers are feared and can’t be your friends’ • Meet a student from... China: ‘Chinese students think British boys are gentlemen, but when they get drunk they go crazy’
  • (14) Finally, ladies and gentlemen (or should I say boys and girls?
  • (15) Russell drops back and throws sideline, up and over the head of Rice - the Seahawks are three and out, much to the delight of the southern dames and gentlemen in the crowd.
  • (16) It continues one of the longest-running gentlemen's agreements in economic history, which decrees that the IMF must always be run by a European, while an American has to head the World Bank.
  • (17) 11.35am BST Ladies and gentlemen, we have players on courts.
  • (18) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
  • (19) I think Essex will lead the way for Ukip in May, as it already does with Douglas Carswell in Clacton.” Ukip’s aims have changed since the last election when its then leader Lord Pearson struck gentlemen’s agreements not to field candidates in the seats of anti-EU rightwingers.
  • (20) These gentlemen are getting excited about kick off, how about you?

Ladies


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Lady

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (2) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
  • (3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (4) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
  • (5) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
  • (6) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (7) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (8) --A fit of acute depersonnalisation in a young lady was suppressed within eight days with the administration of 1 g p.o.
  • (9) A 43-year-old lady was hospitalized due to easy fatiguability in the legs during exercise, and for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the chest X-ray, and hypertension.
  • (10) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
  • (11) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
  • (12) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
  • (13) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
  • (14) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
  • (15) Contemporary songs - by Adele, Lady Gaga, La Roux - are simulacra of those produced in the 60s, 70s and 80s.)
  • (16) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
  • (17) He could say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated Isis,’ and it wouldn’t sound good, OK, all right?
  • (18) The government, too, is keen to strike a conciliatory note, at least compared with the strident tones of the Iron Lady's day.
  • (19) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
  • (20) A case of an aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva in a 38-year-old lady is reported.

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