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

The play is filled with outlandish characters — most conspicuously, Trudy, the bag lady, who has lost her mind and in the process has made contact with space aliens curious about higher consciousness on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022

“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