landlady

Example Sentences

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The court heard the landlady and her partner escorted Gothard - who lived three or four houses from the bar - away to "calm the situation down".

From BBC • May 7, 2026

June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Ms. McDonagh also writes about Elizabeth Anscombe, who was one of the 20th century’s major philosophers, and also a student, friend and landlady of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

This woman, with whom she sometimes spent an hour or so in the afternoons, and her landlady, were the only people she saw.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin