old woman

Example Sentences

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In a story in “Ladies’ Lunch,” an old woman, disheveled after an outing, looks in a mirror and sees “what Diane Arbus might have seen. She gazed, appalled, and being appalled pricked her interest.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

"A young man obsessed with death falls in love with an old woman obsessed with life. She dies and teaches the kid how to live," Cameron Crowe described it for AFI in 2011.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

“A grandmother, an old woman like me, alone.”

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

Interestingly differently from the American-Spanish super old woman, who followed a mediterranean diet , the Brazilian supercentenarians refer no food restriction.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

The village was ruled by an old, old woman who had only one long, sharp tooth, and the only inhabitants were women.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer