How to Use landlady in a Sentence

landlady

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  • The landlady told me this is my problem and to work it out.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The tea tastes a bit like the landlady smells: herbal, bitter.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But Odette, the landlady, is the one who organized the whole thing.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 17 Dec. 2019
  • David’s landlady has woken up to the fact that the carriage house would fetch a tidy sum if sold.
    — Sarah Dunn, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • My landlady brings me a pot of borscht to help create a sense of normalcy.
    — CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Years later, my landlady told me he had been found dead.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Yes, the windowpane in my room was broken and the landlady never fixed it.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The Pakistani woman had been the only landlady willing to rent to a shook-looking boy who was still in high school.
    — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • There are no cattle on the ranch, though my landlady does have several cats.
    — Anna Badkhen, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • After hearing no response to numerous calls, the mother raced to the home and the landlady let her inside the home.
    — Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Even Carol Matthews, the landlady, couldn't stand the commotion.
    — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The Russian native slashed the throat of his landlady, Margaret Egalowski in Gary in 1924.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Sen has considerably more to say about his first landlady in Cambridge than about his first wife.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
  • He had been taken in by a courageous landlady, Mme Vernet.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
  • One hand held her important documents; the other clasped the hand of her landlady.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The landlady has her own romance going, with kindly fruit seller Herr Schmidt.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • But as doc spoke to those who knew Bundy — his mom, his friends, the ex-landlady, the girlfriends — there was a whole different side to him that nobody knew about and Ted certainly didn’t talk about.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The landlady smiles at this reluctant display of personal growth and gets back to pouring pints.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Tatlock met Oppenheimer in the spring of 1936, at a party hosted by his landlady, Mary Ellen Washburn.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 21 July 2023
  • There were other suspects in Ms. Berman’s death: her manager, the landlady.
    — Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Her landlady was planning to list the apartment on Saturday.
    — Emily Gould, Curbed, 28 July 2022
  • Her landlady found Schendel’s half-naked body under a mattress in her apartment.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Showing up behind Amaka on the balcony, the landlady lit an English-brand cigarette, leaned against the railings, and peered down.
    — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • There, Sabit ran into her Kazakh landlady and her husband.
    — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Yolanda Davis rounds out the cast as the wise and understanding Mrs. Dickson, Esther’s landlady.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Plimpton even reached out to Finch’s spring training contacts: his driver, his landlady.
    — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Williams described Effie as a very lively middle-aged landlady, a widow with a bright red Buick convertible.
    — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The landlady also had wire screens installed behind the spiderweb gates.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • According to the Evening Standard, after retrieving a spare key from the landlady, Stephen managed to enter the home and found Flack unconscious.
    — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • One of the building’s other inhabitants was Kinski, then a struggling twenty-six-year-old actor, who was taken in rent-free by the kindly landlady, Clara.
    — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022

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