How to Use landlady in a Sentence

landlady

noun

• The landlady told me this is my problem and to work it out.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• The tea tastes a bit like the landlady smells: herbal, bitter.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• But Odette, the landlady, is the one who organized the whole thing.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 17 Dec. 2019
• David’s landlady has woken up to the fact that the carriage house would fetch a tidy sum if sold.
  — Sarah Dunn, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• My landlady brings me a pot of borscht to help create a sense of normalcy.
  — CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
• Years later, my landlady told me he had been found dead.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
• Yes, the windowpane in my room was broken and the landlady never fixed it.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Pakistani woman had been the only landlady willing to rent to a shook-looking boy who was still in high school.
  — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• There are no cattle on the ranch, though my landlady does have several cats.
  — Anna Badkhen, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• After hearing no response to numerous calls, the mother raced to the home and the landlady let her inside the home.
  — Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Even Carol Matthews, the landlady, couldn't stand the commotion.
  — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• The Russian native slashed the throat of his landlady, Margaret Egalowski in Gary in 1924.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2019
• Sen has considerably more to say about his first landlady in Cambridge than about his first wife.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
• He had been taken in by a courageous landlady, Mme Vernet.
  — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
• One hand held her important documents; the other clasped the hand of her landlady.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• The landlady has her own romance going, with kindly fruit seller Herr Schmidt.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2021
• But as doc spoke to those who knew Bundy — his mom, his friends, the ex-landlady, the girlfriends — there was a whole different side to him that nobody knew about and Ted certainly didn’t talk about.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2023
• The landlady smiles at this reluctant display of personal growth and gets back to pouring pints.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
• Tatlock met Oppenheimer in the spring of 1936, at a party hosted by his landlady, Mary Ellen Washburn.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 21 July 2023
• There were other suspects in Ms. Berman’s death: her manager, the landlady.
  — Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Her landlady was planning to list the apartment on Saturday.
  — Emily Gould, Curbed, 28 July 2022
• Her landlady found Schendel’s half-naked body under a mattress in her apartment.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Showing up behind Amaka on the balcony, the landlady lit an English-brand cigarette, leaned against the railings, and peered down.
  — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
• There, Sabit ran into her Kazakh landlady and her husband.
  — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Yolanda Davis rounds out the cast as the wise and understanding Mrs. Dickson, Esther’s landlady.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Plimpton even reached out to Finch’s spring training contacts: his driver, his landlady.
  — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• Williams described Effie as a very lively middle-aged landlady, a widow with a bright red Buick convertible.
  — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The landlady also had wire screens installed behind the spiderweb gates.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• According to the Evening Standard, after retrieving a spare key from the landlady, Stephen managed to enter the home and found Flack unconscious.
  — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Adam’s spurred back into action by the death of Eloise Parker, a retired teacher played by Phylicia Rashad who is his landlady and only friend, and whose life savings are stolen in a phishing scam.
  — Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024