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

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

I remember Elaine telling me in a meeting at her Hampshire office that she lived in constant fear that at any moment she might become a bag lady living on the streets.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2015

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