landlady

Example Sentences

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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

Probate and will documents show Martin, who died last year, left his money and property to a former Cambridgeshire pub landlady, Jacqueline Wadley, and her husband David.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

It was a second-story porch walled in to make a room-for-rent so the landlady could get an income from it and have a watchman too.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison