fallen woman

Example Sentences

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Played as a maudlin admission that she’s a fallen woman, this scene would doom the play to a dusty footnote in O’Neill’s oeuvre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

I was a divorcee and already a fallen woman in society's eyes.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2021

The contrasting Female Chorus, sung warmly by Kerriann Otaño, was a kind of fallen woman, a tough chick in a leather jacket.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2016

Attention turned from the fallen woman — there seemed to be a consensus that she was fine — and the delegations went toe-to-toe.

From New York Times • May 25, 2015

Elizabeth thought that she must once have been very rich, and had lost her money; and she felt for her, as one fallen woman for another, a certain kinship.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin