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

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

All he’d done was carry a hippie bag lady.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan