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

"I couldn't fit anyone else in that night," landlady Charlotte Ratcliffe recalls.

From BBC • 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

He said Martin and Wadley had "become friends very slowly" after his release from prison when she was the landlady of the Hare and Hounds pub in Wisbech.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

One of them, the smiler, turned now to the landlady and said: “Let’s have the key to his room. How long’s he been living here?”

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