old lady

Example Sentences

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"One old lady pays me with a pint mug of tea and two slices of toast".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Read on: Want to be a rich old lady?

From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026

To this, Oliver sarcastically replies, “No one needs your 17th-century old lady food and outdated social rules.”

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

"A taxi driver said: 'look, your old lady is coming up there.' I told her: 'don't move from there, I'm jumping in right now.' ... I swam out that way."

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

But the old lady was anything but sensible, as Ophie had learned.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland