bag lady
Example Sentences
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Anne Meara was the talk of the town in the role of a bag lady who spurned the self-congratulatory charity of guilty swells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
“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
Dench has a baffling cameo as a bag lady in this world-historically terrible and unfunny farce by Ray Cooney.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019
She was was famously - and jokingly - referred to by Stephen Fry at the Baftas as a dressing like a "bag lady".
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2016
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
