landlady

Example Sentences

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The court heard the landlady and her partner escorted Gothard - who lived three or four houses from the bar - away to "calm the situation down".

From BBC • May 7, 2026

June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Among them is Miss Connulty, a respected landlady, whose tragic past prompts her to warn Ellie that “love was a madness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Lindsay, 52, best known for playing the Rovers Return landlady Shelley Unwin on the ITV soap set in Greater Manchester, said she was "extremely honoured", and dedicated the award to working class actors.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

I still had only a hazy notion of what the landlady was selling.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright