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

Ms. McDonagh also writes about Elizabeth Anscombe, who was one of the 20th century’s major philosophers, and also a student, friend and landlady of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

The landlady says that one of these days the rental service will pull it out, but maybe by that time I can learn to play it.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes