How to Use landlady in a Sentence

landlady

noun
  • The landlady spat out a bitter breath.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • There are no cattle on the ranch, though my landlady does have several cats.
    — Anna Badkhen, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • But Odette, the landlady, is the one who organized the whole thing.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Yes, the windowpane in my room was broken and the landlady never fixed it.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Having a horny landlady who won’t stop hitting on your boyfriend constantly isn’t the end of the world.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • He’s gone to visit Ellen at her home, a boarding house with a snoopy landlady living on the first floor.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • With a firm hold, the landlady showed me how to switch on the boiler and wait for ten minutes until the hot water came.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • One hand held her important documents; the other clasped the hand of her landlady.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Her landlady found Schendel’s half-naked body under a mattress in her apartment.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The landlady smiles at this reluctant display of personal growth and gets back to pouring pints.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • The landlady also had wire screens installed behind the spiderweb gates.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The landlady has her own romance going, with kindly fruit seller Herr Schmidt.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Even Carol Matthews, the landlady, couldn't stand the commotion.
    — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Doran said that the landlady for the home used workers from renovations at other properties to build the tortoise a home in its new home.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That case involved a landlady in Chico who refused, on religious grounds, to rent to an unmarried couple.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Back at the apartment, this poor put-upon landlady is having a meltdown because Camille, as is her way, has left without saying good-bye.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Having purchased the flat with a bequest from her great-grandmother, Diana became the landlady.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Whenever there was a problem, Sara alleges that the landlady wouldn't address it with her directly, but rather, via text message or notes left in the kitchen.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Then his landlady’s daughter had a baby at the new hospital in Gardner and Robert met a nurse who had just been hired there – Donna.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Then his landlady’s daughter had a baby at the new hospital in Gardner, and Robert met a nurse who had just been hired there – Donna.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Hughes would deliver the medication each month and the landlady would keep it locked in the kitchen closet, but Rob needed to swallow that pill every day.
    — jsonline.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • About three months into the search, Chavez’s landlady found Jimmy’s bookbag and a revolver handgun belonging to her inside Chavez’s trailer.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • The Russian native slashed the throat of his landlady, Margaret Egalowski in Gary in 1924.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Tatlock met Oppenheimer in the spring of 1936, at a party hosted by his landlady, Mary Ellen Washburn.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 21 July 2023

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