(These are usually ladies of a certain age.)

Over the years, the play has become a popular vehicle for leading ladies of "a certain age."

In theory there is no dignified way for a lady of a certain age to climb through a window, but nevertheless this one was attempting it.

The lead players are a pair of well-dressed ladies of a certain age.

Well I'm a lady of a certain age and size, going to a wedding Saturday.

Five years later, in a grumpier mood, he returned to the phrase: "A lady of a 'certain age,' which means Certainly aged."

She smiled with all the dignity of a lady of a certain age receiving a welcome guest under her own roof.

Hester turned out to be surprisingly sexual, for a small plump lady of a certain age.

All the way through the hall, ladies of a certain age proudly held their copies aloft.

That's what I meant by saying that one lady of a certain age looks so like another.