How To Use Old lady In A Sentence

But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation.
The old lady sat nodding by the fire.
There was an old lady who swallowed a crab. why did she grad that crawling crab?
The old lady is haunting her. Times, Sunday Times
The lonely old lady filled up the time between supper and retiring with solitaire.

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The old lady kept on about her illness.
I've generally been a lover of orientals and fruity-fresh scents, eschewing white florals and anything that smelled powdery or "old ladyish". Boadicea Pure and Benefit Laugh with Me Lee Lee
I shall be a bitter-looking little old lady with no muscle tone, she thought, and re-dialled Lucy.
But he was built of loyalty and unsuspicion; and though for a mere second a fear assailed him that the old lady was about to charge Reuben with playing his daughter false, he scouted the fancy hotly. Aunt Rachel
Who was that fierce old lady?
Revenge is sweet, saith the phrasemonger, and to the old lady whose discipline had been flouted and whose amour propre had been rudely shaken it was very sweet indeed. Who Cares? a story of adolescence
He saw an old lady in furs.
inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady
The old lady is haunting her. Times, Sunday Times
The old lady started on her great-nephew's problem with acne.
He had met his old lady when he was a house painter and she was a waitress.
They have an old lady adviser which reminded me of the stargazer from Darker than Black. Anime Preview: Winter 2008/2009 First Impressions – Batch 2 « Undercover
They said: 'An old lady said we looked like roast spuds. The Sun
He went to prison because he murdered an old lady.
The old lady exists only on rice coffee and bread.
The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.
he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress
The old lady is going to throw my ass out of the house for getting drunk and puking on my new shirt!
The ruthless enemy killed the old lady.
The "slaughterman" was in fact an eighty-year-old lady and, once a week, she would buy a beast from the market and keep it in her paddock. The emasculation of common sense
Three years ago we helped an old lady with a cluttered house that looked like an antiques shop. Times, Sunday Times
They had heard stories of how the feisty old lady used to attack photographers, clobbering them with her heavy portfolio of art or chasing them for half a block down the street.
The old lady is a mystic.
There was a ribbon hanging under her chin which the old lady called a bridle, and when Glenloch Girls
Cousin Mary was the very type of the beautiful old lady, with her silver hair and her sweet Southern Irish voice; foreigners must be warned that this resembles what they call a "brogue" about as little as the speech of a Highland gentleman resembles the jargon of the Glasgow slums. Surprised by Joy
A thief eased the old lady of her purse.
There are more important issues at stake than the killing of an old lady by a bungling young lout - who is himself now beyond recall. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
I think she palmed off the stolen necklace on some unsuspecting old lady.
The Mother Superior was a fine old lady, intensely loyal to France and very kind to all of us. The Great War As I Saw It
That old lady is very nosy, so nobody likes to talk to her.
He could not help feeling a grudging admiration for the old lady.
The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.
There is an old lady being pushed in a wheelchair past our car along a bumpy dust-track.
I haven't seen your old lady for months, Bill.
If the old lady had not been restored to her fortune, her _personalia_ would have remained in the oblivion which, as one might say, had accumulated upon everything belonging to her. Balcony Stories
They said: 'An old lady said we looked like roast spuds. The Sun
A little old lady opened the door.
The old lady's even told him he's welcome to stay on for a bit, after I've gone back to uni. GO!
Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.
By playing upon the old lady's fears, the criminals were able to persuade her to give them her money.
The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.
The old lady pointed out the machine-gunner on top of the personnel carrier as the thief, and when the lieutenant ordered the man to empty his pockets, piaster notes tumbled out. The Village
The old lady's even told him he's welcome to stay on for a bit, after I've gone back to uni. GO!
During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller.
She was a warmhearted, generous old lady.
You've quite made my day by coming to see me, "said the old lady.
The old lady had a bad cough.
As he said that another old lady came and hit him upside his head with her purse saying, ‘Watch your language young man.’
But they reckon without an apparently harmless little old lady coming between them and the loot. The Sun
She knew only too well the truth of Beth's words since she herself was often hard put to avoid the old ladys lengthy ramblings. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The old lady never has/gets any visitors.
The old lady was increasingly fragile after her operation.
When my sister was a little girl she asked my mother the name of a certain old lady.
We witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of an old lady climbing a tree to rescue her cat.
He had met his old lady when he was a house painter and she was a waitress.
When Liz came back with a tray the old lady seized her cup and took a long swig of hot tea.
The old lady can mount the stairs only with difficulty.
As you said, the grand old lady just turned 40, this is brand new technology, so hopefully it should be bigger and better.
So, while I was wondering what to do about it, she headed right in, leaving me with the valise and the umberella, and a kind of qualmy feeling that the old lady might strike a snag. Love, the Fiddler
The younger branch of the house of Navarreins bears quarterly with the arms of Navarreins those of Lansac, namely, azure, and argent party per pale raguly, between six spear-heads in pale, and the old lady’s liaison with Louis XV. had earned her husband the title of duke by royal patent. Domestic Peace
That old lady is very nosey, so nobody likes to talk to her.
The old lady's reminiscences were a continual delight to Constance.
The old lady run three circuits of the track every morning.
The old lady was upstairs.
One old lady in her 70s sits singing and strumming her guitar with a maraca, cataracts on both eyes, a few coins at her feet.
I'm practically seething with anger before I'm even halfway through this old lady's cart of Christmas ornaments.
It was expertly pruned last year and is now a gnarled but very sprightly old lady, full of fruit. Times, Sunday Times
The old lady fell down in the street and broke her leg.
The first woman on line is a confused old lady who doesn't know how to find her proper seat.
The old lady run three circuits of the track every morning.
We couldn't induce the old lady to travel by air.
The old lady climbed up the stairs with difficulty.
The old lady fell down in the street and broke her leg.
New Yorker Mathias Gold, 50, in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady, has inherited some French books and an apartment in Paris from his rich but unloving father, Max.
The old lady can still see in her mind's eye every piece of furniture in the house where she lived as a child.
It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque. ISAAC CAMPION
The old lady pointed out of the shop doorway and out onto the street.
The old lady gets in a muddle trying to work the video.
The old lady can mount the stairs only with difficulty.
The first thing we see on stage is the old lady in her rocking chair silhouetted against a window.
During my first night an old lady spent the whole night weeing on the floor and running round my bed touching me.
The old lady is cursed with blindness and difficulty in hearing.
Bambino : Swear on our old lady.
The old lady was seated in her chair at the window, a rug over her knees.
Contrast this with the fact that the old lady who comes to work at my place is usually accompanied by her daughter, that is when she doesn't have to slog as a labourer to feed her family.
His plan to get the old lady back for her minor rudeness was coming to literal fruition.
Brides usedn't to be 'poor deared' in my day," the old lady remarked rather testily to her handmaiden, Jane. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
They looked all around them for something to capture, but all that they saw was an old lady hoptoad, going home from market. Bully and Bawly No-Tail
But a little old lady in a Harris tweed coat and a matching hat? Times, Sunday Times
The old lady with the shawl and trowel adores her frowzy garden and in the vanished days of the empire-the pulse of the explorer quickened at the sight of a desert floor. Bringing It All Back Home
But right now, Dan was bawling like a baby, as the news reporter announced that the family-less old lady died, having no one to mourn over her.
The old lady introduced him to the other old women who began to drool over him.
This might be a very old ladyish purchase, but these things are awesome. Archive 2009-01-01
Never had a chance to meet my grandma, but this diagram is also true for the very old lady I call upon from time to time. Sure, more tea sounds great.
The fruit seller palmed off some bad oranges onto the old lady.
Butelli has the toughest job, as he not only has to serve the director's iffiest concepts, but also play several supporting roles -- among them, an old lady friend of Anne's -- that draw a bit too much attention to themselves. Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
The three women are, respectively, crotchety old lady, hothead cynic, and frustrated, overachieving go-between.
A little old lady opened the door.
The driver blew / sounded his horn when an old lady with her dog stepped in front of his car.
For the old lady buying the daily newspaper soon became an end in itself, since she really just wanted to chat with the shopkeeper.
The old lady was completely bowled over by the news of the announcement of the bankrupcy of her son's company.
The name is Bevan - Agnes Bevan - an old lady who was living with her daughter at 14 Balaclava Street. GOODBYE CURATE
It was expertly pruned last year and is now a gnarled but very sprightly old lady, full of fruit. Times, Sunday Times
The leader may say, for example: "It being a beautiful spring day, the _old lady with the bandbox_ [here the old lady must get up and turn around] decided to visit her daughter, and so took a _seat_ in the _stage coach_ [everybody turns around]; she found the _cushions_ [cushions turn around] very comfortable until the _fat old gentleman_ [fat old gentleman turns around] got in, when the place seemed to her very crowded, and she was glad to open the _windows_; the _driver_ cracked his _whip_, the _wheels_ creaked, the _horses_ strained at the _harness_, and away they started on their journey," etc. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
'It is all settled; let us return,' said Amanda, appearing at last with an air of triumph, having appeased the old lady by eating green currants, and admiring an earwiggy arbour, commanding a fine view of a marsh where frogs were piping and cool mists rising as the sun set. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
She gave him a curt "Pastor," walking past him, her purse tight to her chest like an old lady at a rummage sale. KISSCUT
Three years ago we helped an old lady with a cluttered house that looked like an antiques shop. Times, Sunday Times
The old lady can still see in her mind's eye every piece of furniture in the house where she lived as a child.
The driver sounded his horn when an old lady stood in front of his car.
The old lady climbed up the stairs with difficulty.
Mr. Deane had an agenda to support his side in a fraud trial so he created an "old black woman" persona and whipped up racial intolerance of the "whitish" old lady Madge Knox who is in the way of Mr. Deane's ambitions. Barbados Free Press
As I headed left towards the town centre, a group of scooters and mopeds bounced past followed by an old lady on an even older bicycle.
Letters have come from prisoners, declaring that they would draw the line at hitting an old lady.
Who was that fierce old lady?
This blithely idiosyncratic, almost dialogue-free animated film concerns an old lady's quest to recover her grandson after he is mysteriously kidnapped during the Tour de France.
The old lady can still see in her mind's eye every piece of furniture in the house where she lived as a child.
The little front parlour, which is the old lady's ordinary sitting-room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is covered with brown Holland, the glass and picture-frames are carefully enveloped in yellow muslin; the table-covers are never taken off, except when the leaves are turpentined and bees '- waxed, an operation which is regularly commenced every other morning at half-past nine o'clock -- and the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
The old lady was helplessly bedridden but was nursed to health by this caring neighbour.
For the old lady buying the daily newspaper soon became an end in itself, since she really just wanted to chat with the shopkeeper.
The youths jostled an old lady on the pavement.
Mary stared at him hard and eventually shamed him into giving up his seat to the old lady.
The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.
The old lady can mount the stairs only with difficulty.
_Mea culpa, mea culpa_; and _can_ you forgive a very much mortified old lady who is really and truly fond of you? The Younger Set
The old lady shouted for help and then gave chase.
The old lady immediately got up and dropped a very quick and what was meant to be a very respect-showing courtesy, saying at the same time, with much deference, and with one of her involuntary twitches, "I '' maun 'to know! Queechy, Volume I
The old lady fusses over her little dog as if it were a sick child.
Buying my bronzer in the chemists yesterday lunchtime, the sweet little old lady at the till smiled at me and said: ‘Ooh, going anywhere nice?’
Boy, boy, _boy_!" called the old lady in a voice so entreating, though tremulous, that Bobby felt constrained to return. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
This 1963 play, which flopped twice in a row on Broadway, is one of Williams's ripest exercises in Southern-fried Gothicism, a parable about a rich, imperious and scared old lady with the improbable name of Flora Goforth (Olympia Dukakis) who is dictating her memoirs to an uptight Ivy League prig (Maggie Lacey) in a frantic attempt to set the record straight before she dies of cancer. The Most Sweetly Delectable Musical
the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily
I recommend a mobile phone to make her look not like a scatty old lady but a busy executive on the job.
The salesman scared the old lady into signing the paper by threatening to take away the goods.
To be solved, the murder and torture of an elderly couple in an isolated farmhouse and the subsequent racially motivated crime that starts to spread when the old lady's dying word, 'foreigner', is leaked to the press. Once more unto the screech (of tyres), dear Ken.
The old lady can still see in her mind's eye every piece of furniture in the house where she lived as a child.
The old lady is a mystic.
Indeed I was greeted in Italian by a shrivelled old lady in a white habit.
It is the end of another long day, and I have been watching often enough to see that at exactly 6: 45 each evening, a little old lady materializes like a guardian angel to take him home.
The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.
She could tell, especially that old lady with her patronizing smile: i used to play bridge with your grandmother Fermoyle.
The old lady cackled, pleased to have produced so dramatic a reaction.
In another store lately the little old lady undercharged me when she forgot to ring up one of my items. Ruining It for the Rest of Us « Scavenging
The driver sounded his horn when an old lady stood in front of his car.
It matters not that the average rape victim is either a child, a defenseless old lady or some victim unfortunate enough to have crossed paths with a sicko on a dark road.
The old lady has practised a lot at drawing and she is now a famous painter.
The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere
The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.
The old lady fusses over her little dog as if it were a sick child.
That old lady is very nosey, so nobody likes to talk to her.
Sprawled on the floor, her skin as white as chalk, her sightless eyes staring up the ceiling, was the body of an old lady.
Mike helped the old lady to her feet.
Many of her letters have been preserved, and show a sprightliness which is well borne out by her portrait, that of a charming old lady in a turban, with bright eyes and a humorous mouth. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
The old lady had fallen and broken her hip.
a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady
A deranged old lady with totally messed up hair walked around shouting at everybody else.
He had met his old lady when he was a house painter and she was a waitress.
The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.
I was a very old lady - much of my physical strength abated - and old people by reason of age were almost sure to become garrulous, talked too much (if they have impatient kinspeople) and were set in their ways of thinking as well as of saying and doing things, and are old-fogyish in regard to modern methods and activities. Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
Now I see an old lady crossing the street, a guy drinking a coffee, I even see Beth and Andrew and we wave at them.
The old lady never has/gets any visitors.
Jerry also works the streets, pimping his old lady Stella to raise the cash to buy smack from the repellent drug lord, Fats.
Dean tricked the old lady into giving him eight hundred pounds, claiming that he would invest it for her.
The old lady complained indignantly , her lips trembling as she spoke.
Over the next couple of days, he grudgingly repairs the fence and begins to make the acquaintance of the odd old lady.
The driver sounded his horn when an old lady stood in front of his car.
The driver sounded his horn when an old lady stood in front of his car.
The cantankerous old lady she had worked for for six years had been good to her, in her gruff way.
The old lady was flung out of the house because the owner wanted to pull it down.
The old lady run three circuits of the track every morning.
Old man Riddle was cracked on religion and the old lady's father made a small fortune out of rabbit skins.
We couldn't induce the old lady to travel by air.
The old lady was increasingly fragile after her operation.
That must be patent leather!'said the old lady. " They shine so!
We witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of an old lady climbing a tree to rescue her cat.
It was he, too, who laid before Lady Southdown the great advantages which might occur from an intimacy between her family and Miss Crawley, advantages both worldly and spiritual, he said: for Miss Crawley was now quite alone; the monstrous dissipation and alliance of his brother Rawdon had estranged her affections from that reprobate young man; the greedy tyranny and avarice of Mrs. Bute Crawley had caused the old lady to revolt against the exorbitant pretensions of that part of the family; and though he himself had held off all his life from cultivating Miss Crawleys friendship, with perhaps an improper pride, he thought now that every becoming means should be taken, both to save her soul from perdition, and to secure her fortune to himself as the head of the house of Crawley. XXXIII. In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious about Her
One old lady, with an affection of the skin, would only have the 'bibi' as her doctor, so she came to me with a good many men to show her off, but would have nothing to do with my husband. Southern Arabia
I hate the old lady next door she's a real flea-bag.
The old lady fell down in the street and broke her leg.
He went to prison because he murdered an old lady.
One old lady, overcome by her situation, burst into tears.
The old lady has her hand over her mouth like I have just spoken an indecency (which I guess I did).
The old lady was conned out of her life savings by a crooked insurance dealer.
Gordy aimed his trumpet across the river and blew. Old lady Gammon spit a jet of water out of her mouth.
Are you trying to skin the old lady?
The old lady fell under the bus and was killed.
The old lady exists only on rice coffee and bread.
He bundled the old lady into her hallway and brutally attacked her.
You really like that sweet old lady who lives two doors down, and her dog is cool too.
It's obviously payback for every time I've laughed at a little old lady who's managed to become entangled in her shopping trolley and then hit the deck.
And Ariel Durant, who's wrapped in this kind of shapeless shmatte and there's this little old lady with gray hair, had the face of Madam Another Life: A Memoir of Other People
She attends the old lady in the wheelchair
Can anyone put a good case for allowing unneighbourly neighbours to bomb tiles off a little old lady's roof whenever they feel like it?
Yes | No | Report from matt wasson wrote 2 weeks 3 hours ago even though illegal a lot a people got busted this last year baiting, and the funny one of the year goes to a little old lady who has a ton of bird feed out, the deer are yarding up at her house now! Feeding the deer in winter
I agree with the policeman who came round to break into the downstairs flat when the old lady first fell and refused to go to hospital.
The princess and her daughter made their appearance half an hour before dinner-time; the old lady had put on, in addition to the green dress with which I was already acquainted, a yellow shawl, and an old-fashioned cap adorned with flame-coloured ribbons. First Love

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