[
US
/ˈɫeɪdi/
]
[ UK /lˈeɪdi/ ]
[ UK /lˈeɪdi/ ]
NOUN
-
a woman of refinement
a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady -
a polite name for any woman
a nice lady at the library helped me
How To Use lady In A Sentence
- The lady was kissing a little lap dog.
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.
- But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation.
- We had been talking and laughing a great deal for more than half an hour when suddenly the lady burst into tears.
- I have sprayed them a couple of times with soapy water, which kills some of them but doesn't harm beneficial insects like ladybirds.
- This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
- At the end, instead of a fat lady singing, we get a thinner but happier Watt contentedly crooning about how great it is to be alive.
- I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
- Mickey-boy, 'if the Joy Lady is so anxious to get the baby, and sew its clothes herself, why I'll just let her,' so I did _let_ her, but it took some time to make them, so I had to wait to bring it 'til tonight. Michael O'Halloran