How To Use Old woman In A Sentence

In a seemingly unprovoked incident, the attackers hit both men and women in the 16-strong party, with a 72-year-old woman left unconscious.
The old woman glared at him.
Carlo lit a cigarette, and wishing the old woman a merry "addio" left and descended the stairs. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
I am a 63-year-old woman whose husband of 31 years has left her for a younger number. Times, Sunday Times
Just over two weeks ago a 27 year old woman was sexually assaulted in an alleyway.

An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting.
Do I look like some mad old woman in this hat?
The article told of a honey-coloured cat that attacked an 83-year-old woman in her garden.
The old woman doddered from the bed to the table.
The figure of a ghostly old woman dressed in a white dress and cape has appeared beside a hollow in the road. Times, Sunday Times
We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt. Pixie O'Shaughnessy
Digitalis from the foxglove plants used by an old woman in Shropshire, England was analyzed and promoted for heart disease by Dr. William Withering in 1785 and was still widely used in herbal form until the 1950's.
An old woman advanced a few paces to shake her fist virulently in my face.
An elegant ding dong, dang dong rang throughout the house, and a small mouse of an old woman answered it curiously.
A 23 year old woman was referred by her general practitioner with multiple, unsightly lesions on her right pinna, which occasionally discharged pus.
The old woman cast a spell on the prince and he turned into a frog.
If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? — The Abbot
She viewed herself as she was sure Jake would: a twenty-five-year-old woman, grossly tall, apparently too clumsy to hold a book, and with a demimondaine petticoat contradicting a dress sewn for a much younger woman. Hearts
And there sat by the empty fireplace, which was filled with a pot of sweet herbs, the nicest old woman that ever was seen, in her red petticoat, and short dimity bedgown, and clean white cap, with The Water Babies
The old woman's cacodemonic laughter broke out again. The Mummy Case
` ` Naebody but mysell and baudrons, '' said the old woman? The Black Dwarf
The assaulted 20 year old woman was standing nearby in tears, still shook up and embarrassed after the incident.
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When the old woman had made an end of her ablution, she came up to where he sat, and prayed a two bow prayer; after which she blessed my brother with a godly benediction, and he while thanking her put his hand to the dinars and gave her two, saying to himself “These are my voluntaries.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I shall be an old woman then, and should, it may be, have less objection to being known as his benefactress than at present. A Romantic Young Lady
She paints a portrait of a young, 31-year-old woman who was bright and strong-willed and who chaffed under the discipline imposed on a first lady.
The 53-year-old woman disappeared at Ynys Feurig, or Starvation Island, off the town of Rhosneigr on Sunday afternoon in strong, north-westerly winds after becoming separated from four companions. Search for missing kayaker continues off Anglesey coast
A terrible old woman, with landlady written large all over her face and person, opened the door, and, without paying the slightest attention to me, began to rate the shopboy in no measured terms. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
That's why for every 50-year-old man in a ponytail and tight jeans, there's a 50-year-old woman in a Jaeger twinset a few paces behind, pretending she's not with him.
Only the old woman knew well the crucible, and the great work -- the one was cuckoldom, and the other the private property of Madame Advocate. Droll Stories — Volume 2
She admitted, that when she heard the poor petitioner turn from the door, her heart was softened, and she did intend to open with the purpose of offering her at least a shelter; but that before she could “hirple to the door, and get the bar taken down,” the unfortunate supplicant was not to be seen; which strengthened the old woman’s opinion, that the whole was Saint Ronan's Well
Then we had the 55-year-old woman who captained her local golf team while claiming her back was so painful she needed help getting out of the bath. The Sun
A 53-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were last night charged with receiving stolen property in connection with the robbery.
Set in the 17th century, it is the story of a stubborn old woman trying to keep herself and her children alive during the 30 - Years War by following armies with a cartload of scavenged goods to sell to the soldiers.
As we sat at a Paris café table, the most striking passing figure was an old woman - thin to the point of emaciation.
The old woman had some difficulty straightening herself up.
The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood. The Price She Paid.
A 35-year-old woman detailed how she was beaten with rifle butts and fists before five soldiers threw her to the ground, tore off her clothes and took turns raping her, even as she vomited, urinated and defecated. Congo colonel gets 20 years after rape trial
Michelle had deliberately placed the card in front of the old woman on the far side of the table.
The youngest contributors are schoolkids; the oldest, an 81-year-old woman who created a Barbie decked in army desert fatigues.
Don't nag me like an old woman.
In the first incident a 34-year-old woman was indecently assaulted and in a separate attack a flasher exposed himself to workers in a local tanning studio, both on Monday night.
An old woman is sitting on the front steps with a triumphant smile on her face.
He did not kiss the old woman's hand; for, in his fatigue and depression, the necessity to pretend fell away.
In the second incident, the Asian man entered a 70-year-old woman's home through an unlocked door.
I watched an old woman pull herself up the stairs, holding on to a rail.
Perhaps he was jilted by a 28 year old woman, who knows.
On the final day in hospital, before they departed for home, a lone old woman arrived with a farewell gift of a bunch of bluebells.
The old woman has a careworn look on her face.
The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village. The Nigger of the Narcissus
The young student explains to his friend how stingily the old woman conducts her business, how she beats her sister, and how the old woman decides to leave all her money to a monastery.
Replied the old woman, O my lady, this damsel is a liar. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Hereupon in came the old woman and dragged my brother by his feet to a souterrain and threw him down upon a heap of dead bodies. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Athene, as they say, took the form of Deiphobus for the sake of Hector, and the unshorn Phoebus for the sake of Admetus fed the trailing-footed oxen, and the spouse us came as an old woman to Semele. Is There Evidence For Mythicism?
The cobbler said a little prayer, and then they began to eat -- first of oat-cakes, baked by the old woman, then of loaf-breid, as they called it. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
To our amusement, the boy acted an old woman.
A 66-year-old woman presented with headaches, left eye proptosis, and loss of vision from her left eye for 2 years.
A 37-year-old woman presented for evaluation of a scar on her philtrum.
Neil is the grand-daughter of Dorothy Gale, who is now an old woman living in Kansas and telling her tales about her time in the land of Oz to a new generation of kids. EXCLUSIVE: ‘Oz: The Return To Emerald City’ Does Indeed Originate From Josh Olson’s Script » MTV Movies Blog
She's a contented creeter, my pretty," the old woman said to Ruth. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
The speakers laughed, the reedy cackle of a dying old woman.
The crone is the old woman of great power whose life wisdom comes from both her great age and the many things she has lived through. October « 2009 « bindu wiles
Confessing to the poor old woman, who cannot shrive them! Clarissa Harlowe
Carjackers stole a terrified 75-year-old woman's new BMW after ramming it from behind.
Ay, it is Neepoosa," the old woman replied, drawing her inside the tent, and despatching a boy, hot-footed, on some errand. CHAPTER 2
She reaches out her hand to touch the old woman. Times, Sunday Times
She's just joshing you, Auntie Rose is a nice old woman.
Sophie is transformed into an old woman by the spell of a crone called The Witch of the Waste.
It's a pity for me to see an old woman hobble away.
The first time I saw Wiwin, she looked like a wizened old woman, with wrinkly, hairy skin and big, unblinking eyes.
She called her insolent, and assurance; and said, Begone, bold woman as thou art! — but come hither. Pamela
The old woman has a careworn look on her face.
The old woman had a few grey bristles sprouting from her chin.
This servant of your Honour has presently no place to lay crown of his head, but going to Benares by train on account of persecution of old woman talking so much and unanxious residing Kim
A 78-year-old woman sent a robber packing after she cracked him across the head with a wooden club.
Naebody but mysell and baudrons," said the old woman. The Black Dwarf
_O. vulgare_, wild marjoram) thyme > (This and origan were used to treat scabs: see 108.47: 3; thyme was also used to treat syphilis) 8 A filthy foul old woman I did view, The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
The yeoman-keeper, therefore, our friend Joceline, had constructed, for his own accommodation, and that of the old woman he called his dame, a wattled hut, such as his own labour, with that of a neighbour or two, had erected in the course of a few days. Woodstock
The old woman and children went along the street,begging the people for bread .
After this, the old woman presented me to Chrysis; who was very glad she had recover'd her mistress's treasure; and therefore hastening to her, she conducted me to a most pleasant retreat, deckt with all that nature cou'd produce to please the sight. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
A flash of white feathers in the field, and the old woman was carrying a bucket.
We report an 82-year-old woman who intentionally ingested about 300 ml of camphorated oil and developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and mortality.
The old woman felt nervous as she tried to cross the busy road.
In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman.
A 52 year old woman developed acute dyspnoea and hypoxia two hours after rapid drainage of a large left tuberculous pleural effusion.
The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
The horrible old woman made him afraid, especially did her last words make him afraid, because he who was experienced in such matters knew that she had come with no intention of uttering them, that they had burst from her lips in a sudden semi-trance such as overtakes her sisterhood from time to time. Love Eternal
The old woman looked directly at the boy and he tried to avoid her searching glance.
The old woman servant in the house, and her conversation with the heroine, constitute one of these artistic embellishments that turn a good story into an even better one.
The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
An old woman, hopelessly blinded by glaucoma, and her daughter sit together. Times, Sunday Times
The 33-year-old woman drank the Valkanov vodka - laced with methanol - which was probably brewed in a home-made still.
ROME—The operator of the Costa Concordia formally suspended the shipwrecked vessel's captain Thursday, as investigators scrutinized his final maneuvers with his stricken ship and reports emerged that he enjoyed a pre-wreck meal and wine with a 25-year-old woman. Scrutiny on Captain's Final Actions
As a twenty-three-year-old woman living in New York City, I will assign myself the role of ambassador of my generation and attempt to respond to your article discussing the word edgy. No Uncertain Terms
Was that old woman she met earlier telling the truth, and that she really was warning Alli of a possible danger that could befall her?
The old woman doddered from the bed to the table.
Ni’amah replied, “An old woman of such and such a mien, clad in woollen raiment and carrying a rosary of beads numbered by thousands.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She resigned her seat to an old woman.
First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie Waverley
I couldn't believe how spunky this little old woman was.
Surprisingly has an unkissed 47 year old woman from Blackburn become a megastar worldwide. Unkissed talent makes web success.
Olivia said, “There is the eeriest old woman on one of the delivery routes.” Starting from Scratch
As the old woman had shrewdly guessed, it was a Grey Friar who stole Candide
Everyone stood up and clapped loudly and the old woman burst into tears. DESPERADOES
A 72 year old woman undergoing laparotomy for a large gastrointestinal haemorrhage required a blood transfusion and clotting factors.
A 66-year-old woman with no previous history of malignancy presented with melena.
He waited a moment or two as if willing to give the old woman time to speak: then, when he saw that she kept her thin, quivering lips resolutely glued together he called his corporal to him. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
From time to time the old woman spoke as if to the children --- ` ` Oh ay, hinnies, whisht! whisht! and I'll begin a bonnier ane than that --- The Antiquary
Now, at almost 60, she has grown into a crotchety, cantankerous old woman who, nonetheless, has a deeply sensitive underside and a great affection for the children she minds.
Rusty nodded as though she understood the old woman.
Helen, feeding the old woman mush on a spoon.
While trying to help starving villagers, Yunus met a 21-year-old woman named Sufia Begum, who was burdened by a tiny yet crushing debt, Yunus recalled in his autobiography, "Banker to the Poor.
44-year-old woman seeks caring, honest male of similar age for friendship and fun. Genuine replies only.
A 70-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital in March 1997 complaining of pain in her left gluteal region.
AN 18-year-old woman who threatened a police officer with a kitchen knife began to slash her own wrists with the weapon.
The evening being cold, the inhabitants were crowded round a brasero in a chimney corner; and the hostess was a dry old woman, who looked like a mummy. The Alhambra
A 34-year-old woman reported with a hyperpigmented palpable lesion, approximately 5-10 mm in diameter, was found on the patient's left labium majus. BioMed Central - Latest articles
She admitted, that when she heard the poor petitioner turn from the door, her heart was softened, and she did intend to open with the purpose of offering her at least a shelter; but that before she could "hirple to the door, and get the bar taken down," the unfortunate supplicant was not to be seen; which strengthened the old woman's opinion, that the whole was a delusion of Satan. St. Ronan's Well
Candide followed the old woman, though without taking courage, to a decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat bed, with a suit of clothes hanging by it; and set victuals and drink before him. Candide
An 81 year old woman who had had a total knee replacement 26 years ago noticed painless, knobbly swellings on either side of the knee.
Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
The 49-year-old woman was shot four times on the upper body and head at her home in Bityi near Mthatha on Thursday night. Archive 2009-05-01
He rapped on the door once, and it opened to reveal a wizened old woman carrying a cord with knots in it.
There is the gossipy old woman: a chorus and a light relief. Times, Sunday Times
Don't nag me like an old woman.
Saxon's amazement increased, as, article by article, the old woman displayed the airiest, the daintiest, the most delicious and most complete of bridal outfits. CHAPTER VI
Whoever would do a thing like that to an old woman?
I blurted out to my kind friend that I had absolutely no interest in that cantankerous, melancholy old woman!
The old woman spent three hours gleaning in the wheat field.
Our visitors were at once surrounded by beggars, but none of them gave them anything, except young Kalganov, who took a ten-copeck piece out of his purse, and, nervous and embarrassed — God knows why! — hurriedly gave it to an old woman, saying: “Divide it equally.” The Brothers Karamazov
She felt uncomfortable, shifting under the gaze of the old woman, which seemed to bore right through her.
Do I look like some mad old woman in this hat?
You, for instance, he calls a philosophizing old woman, and me a dissolute buffoon and scamp. The Caesars
But,” added he, at seeing the old woman’s uneasiness at his discourse, “affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o’ him, as out o’ The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The word means ‘old woman’ or ‘grandmother’ and refers to the vertical form, an anthropomorphic usage similar to the derivation of pretzel from bracelli, because the twist of dough resembles folded arms.
Instead the 30-year-old woman from Whitby had to be airlifted to hospital by a team from RAF Leconfield who winched her to safety.
He actually chops wood and aids an old woman.
44-year-old woman seeks caring, honest male of similar age for friendship and fun. Genuine replies only.
The driver of the ambulette, a 28-year-old woman, and of the minivan, a 52-year-old man, were treated for minor injuries at Brooklyn Hospital Center, the police said.
The tender sprig is not likely to prosper under the influence of the tree which attracts its nurture; applies that nurture to itself, where the calls occasioned by decay are the most powerful -- An old woman and a sprightly nurse, are characters as opposite as the antipodes. An History of Birmingham (1783)
A real tear-jerker is the scene where Madelon, an old woman who has already lost her son and a grandson in the war, offers her last grandson as a soldier.
But there's a big difference between "elderly" and "infirm" - as the 70-year-old woman on the spin bike next to mine would quickly point out. NYT > Home Page
a feeble old woman
She had had her nails manicured and polished, her hair washed and styled, and had even called the beautician to give her a facial because she claimed hours and hours of crying had made her look like an old woman. Twilight’s Child
Mademoiselle was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt.
The old woman accepted it with signs of neither dissatisfaction nor disgust. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
A team of neurosurgeons at Heidelberg University Hospital and psychiatrists at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim, performed the world's first operation on the habenula of a 64-year-old woman, who had suffered from the common psychiatric illness since age 18. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
In one instance a 100-year-old woman was pulled from rubble. Times, Sunday Times
Somewhere too, at the very back of his mind, will be the unformed idea that surely - if she does find herself in trouble - Hetty will know some old woman somewhere who will help her get rid of the unwanted thing.
The old woman and children went along the street,begging the people for bread .
During a street clash in 1912 a 73-year-old woman unionist unhorsed the Police Commissioner with her hatpin.
She's an old woman pulling out a maple sapling by its roots and trying to recall a song she once knew about mandrakes.
Allowing the name to have been De Benyon, you discover that one brother is not married, and that there are some papers belonging to him in the possession of an old woman who dies; and upon these slight grounds what would you attempt to establish that because that person was known not to have married, therefore _he was married_ (for you are stated to have been born in wedlock); and because there is a packet of papers belonging to him in the possession of another party, that this packet of papers _must refer_ to you. Japhet in Search of a Father
Only last week a 76-year-old woman raised £280 for the pool fund by swimming 100 lengths.
The shop clerk, a gnarled old woman with teeth blacker than the abysses of Hell, wheezed.
Looking younger than I was had the effect of convincing me that I really wasn't 40, or 50, or what I am now -- a 57 year old woman with wrecked knees, which may not be a problem, because as one of my jollier friends says, "We're on the down escalator now. Elizabeth Lesser: On Becoming a Grandmother
Next he remembered the old woman of the chaparral, pressing grapes in her mountain clearing; and Ferguson, the little man who had scuttled into the road like a rabbit, the one-time managing editor of a great newspaper, who was content to live in the chaparral along with his spring of mountain water and his hand-reared and manicured fruit trees. Chapter XXII
The wicked old woman charmed the princess with magic words.
The door was opened by an old woman with caked on make-up and a frilly peignoir.
After a month she brought gifts for the old woman: hair ribbons, and a seedcake, and a black rooster. AMERICAN GODS
Some just stood there, their mouths agape, stunned by what the old woman had just said.
When you're 11, you can think of nothing more embarrassing than standing in the dressing room at the Marshal Fields while some old woman, who reeks of Estee Lauder and moth balls, pokes and prods at your newfound ninnies. The DC Damsel: Lifting the Ladies: Adventures in Bra-Fitting
Though she was the size and shape of a toddler, her personality and grasp of the language was that of a ballsy 35-year-old woman.
The old woman pulled her face into a mask of almost no expression at all.
A similar ballad, now lost, but re-written by the contributor, from scraps of recitation by an old woman in Berwickshire, localises the story of the fire-drake (‘the laidly worm’) near Bamborough in Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series
The signore is welcome," replied the old woman as she clattered into the narrow, cheaply furnished little sitting-room, which was in half darkness owing to the _persiennes_ being closed. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
He oxtered the old woman upstairs.
An old woman is paroled from prison because ‘the inmates amount rised’ and cleverly tricks some people drinking on an old pier to follow her back to her warehouse headquarters.
It is night in a tumbledown shack; an old woman in a rocking chair gazes at pictures of herself as a young opera star and, taking a draught of gin, she plays on an old cylinder phonograph the one surviving record of her voice.
The fairy changed the ugly old woman into a frog.
A phylarch I lately saw, mounted on horse-back, dressed for the part with long ringlets and all,/Stow in his helmet the omelet bought steaming from an old woman who kept a food-stall. Lysistrata
The weak old woman dragged along slowly.
A 51 year old woman was referred by her general practitioner with longstanding dyspepsia and reflux worsened by alcohol and bread.
Days went by, and the women had plenty of meat, but the old woman always told her son that there was none.
She was grizzled old woman with a beer belly and voice to match, and she knew something about justice.
Some fake old woman was trying to bilk his innocent friend out of some money.
Then we had the 55-year-old woman who captained her local golf team while claiming her back was so painful she needed help getting out of the bath. The Sun
A 37-year-old woman has been given a second chance by a revolutionary new drug which saved her life following a massive heart attack.
She thought Alfred Stevens so handsome, and he smiled so sweetly, and he spoke so genty, and, in short, so great had been his progress in the affections of his hostess in the brief space of a single week, that we are constrained to confess ourselves rejoiced that she herself was an old woman, as well on her own account as on that of her worthy spouse. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
He zeroes in on the face of an old woman, showing that the weak and elderly are victims too.
In Plauen, in Germany's southeast, a 28-year-old woman is in custody for allegedly killing her three babies. CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007
Then, in a second, the old woman's face had softened back into its regular form.
I consider myself to be a perfectly normal, 24-year-old woman in possession of the full complement of mental faculties.
The old woman was drawling on and on.
A thief planted the television set he had stolen on this innocent old woman.
A twenty-year-old woman called Mei from the Deyang county town had been assigned to the village next to mine. Wild Swans
The Old Woman from the Royal Collection chuckles in her reverie, amused by the fantastic costume Rembrandt has garbed her in.
As I was leaving I walked past the nurses' station and saw the confused old woman from earlier on.
The patient, a 37-year-old woman with a history of breast carcinoma, presented clinically with acute thyroiditis.
The 47-year-old woman was trapped as she tried to flee from an upstairs bedroom.
a disagreeable and unlikable old woman
I am a 63-year-old woman whose husband of 31 years has left her for a younger number. Times, Sunday Times
a surly unforgiving old woman
At Mecca the Goddess was Shaybah or Sheba, the Old Woman, worshipped as a black aniconic stone like the Godess of the Scythian Amazons. Archive 2008-02-01
The old woman grinned back at Leia, her expression wizened by years. Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
The old woman worked up a sweat in the garden.
The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
A 67 year old woman with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis had a recurrence of right sided trigeminal neuralgia.

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