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

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

The band - which then included the original bassist Andy Nicholson - took home just £17 that night and the pub's landlady said the audience mostly consisted of the band's "aunts, mums and dads".

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

The people who lived on the second floor—our landlord and landlady, the Meyers—had always been kind to me.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes