old maid
Example Sentences
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While Agathe initially identifies with the wilting old maid Anne from “Persuasion,” her shyly budding connection with Oliver is more Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
If they chance upon the foul water, they are set to marry a widow or widower and if they choose the empty dish "the person is destined to be a bachelor or an old maid".
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023
Still, we suspect that she is a sad case, a solitary old maid gabbing to her niece about happier times.
From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017
“Your piano’s an old maid with a gray tabby on her lap,” Rosetta says bluntly.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016
Polly was very surprised because up till now there had never been any children in that house, but only Mr. Ketterley and Miss Ketterley, a brother and sister, old bachelor and old maid, living together.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
