old ladies

plural of old lady

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of old ladies For The Times) Courtney does great old ladies and whining teens, Michaels plays great curmudgeons and Palermo is great at space work. — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Most of the other tenants were lonely old ladies. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026 Little old ladies lay down their canes to get close to him. — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 There were old ladies’ sequin dresses and their Sunday best. — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026 The number of people who think that Renee Good being murdered or that picking up old ladies off the street is something that’s appropriate is tiny. — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2026 The little old ladies in the nursing home are engaging and creepy, inviting visitors into their rooms filled with mummified bodies wrapped in spider webs. — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025 Three old ladies dressed in black peer through a tiny shop window, and a group of children in thick winter coats play with a Jack Russell dog. — Joanne Harris september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025 The kind of person who helps old ladies with their groceries and warns kids about the dangers of drugs. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for old ladies
Noun
  • Roseland employees said closing the labor and delivery department will threaten the health of moms-to-be and deepen existing disparities in access for Black women.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The San Francisco Bay Area was the second worst place for single moms to live, while San Jose ranked fourth from the bottom of the list.
    — Gagandeep Singh, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • With her immense popularity, Swift has drawn more viewers to the sport, and the NFL is trying to replicate that success with other star players’ wives and girlfriends.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • People’s responses were also colored by everyone suddenly having lawyers and managers and agents, wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Both players, arrested in the offseason on charges tied to domestic abuse involving their girlfriends, remain the subjects of ongoing league investigations.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • There was a coordinated social media effort by the NFL to allow some of the league’s star quarterbacks — namely Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow and Jaxson Dart — to have their popular girlfriends canoodling with them at preseason practices.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • These women — cradle Catholics and converts, former nuns, teachers, hospice chaplains, counselors, spouses, mothers, grandmothers — say their defiance is the fulfillment of a vocation, no different than the call answered by their male counterparts.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Near the end of the series, there’s one sweet moment of coming together between Evi’s and Vanessa’s mothers and another moment of seemingly genuine outreach by one of the town’s conservatives to King.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • That a self-image forged in the crucible of the fear of being ugly makes women amputate their talents?
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • For many of these women, there's no senior circuit for ring girls.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Nearly 1 in 5 middle and high school girls reported seriously considering harming themselves in a 2023-24 survey.
    — Leondra Head, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • He was convicted in June of one count of rape, four counts of gross indecency and 13 indecent assault charges involving two girls between 1985 and 2008.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Old ladies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20ladies. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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