bag lady

Example Sentences

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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

Ms. Komar said: “That she was seen as some kind of bag lady, that her art gets overshadowed by those stories, makes us angry.”

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

“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

Dench has a baffling cameo as a bag lady in this world-historically terrible and unfunny farce by Ray Cooney.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2019

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