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
In 2023, doctors in Taiwan removed more than 300 kidney stones from a 20 year old woman who had reportedly been drinking bubble tea instead of water.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 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
On the other side of the room, a hunched old woman leaned against a large staff.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
