bag lady

Example Sentences

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"People called us the bag lady because I used to carry all my bags everywhere."

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2025

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

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

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