little woman
Example Sentences
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She loved breaking taboos, especially the idea of the little woman at home, cooking, without much more to their lives, she recalls.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023
“The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2020
“There was this little woman and she asked me to walk for her,” Imboden says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2018
While not responsible for starting it, Lee was the little woman who made the values of the civil rights movement — particularly a feeling for the god-awful unfairness of segregation — real for millions.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2016
Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn’t like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
