bag lady
Example Sentences
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Ms. Komar said: “That she was seen as some kind of bag lady, that her art gets overshadowed by those stories, makes us angry.”
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024
The play is filled with outlandish characters — most conspicuously, Trudy, the bag lady, who has lost her mind and in the process has made contact with space aliens curious about higher consciousness on Earth.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022
“I thought I would be a bag lady 10 years from now saying, ‘Hey, I invented those,’ ” Ms. Revson told The Post in 1995.
From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2022
That’s when Vera appeared like magic, through a door in a funeral home, fully formed with her name, looking more like a bag lady than a detective.
From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2020
With a slight push, a slip over some ill-defined edge, I could turn into a bag lady.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
