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

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

Ms. Ypi tells us that the two had been close enough for her grandfather to once offer to settle the penniless Hoxha’s debts with his Parisian landlady.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

The landlady says that one of these days the rental service will pull it out, but maybe by that time I can learn to play it.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes