bag lady
Example Sentences
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"People called us the bag lady because I used to carry all my bags everywhere."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
Anne Meara was the talk of the town in the role of a bag lady who spurned the self-congratulatory charity of guilty swells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
“I thought I would be a bag lady 10 years from now saying, ‘Hey, I invented those,’ ” Ms. Revson told The Post in 1995.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
I remember Elaine telling me in a meeting at her Hampshire office that she lived in constant fear that at any moment she might become a bag lady living on the streets.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2015
With a slight push, a slip over some ill-defined edge, I could turn into a bag lady.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
