spinster

Example Sentences

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“We were both in our early forties, and neither of us had been married, which made me a spinster and him a catch.”

From Washington Post

She is maybe one of Christie’s few real and fleshed-out characters: the consummate English spinster, living in the typical English village, with its gossip and intrigues.

From Washington Post

I’m like one of those crazy spinster ladies who listen to the radio at night.

From New York Times

Among the characters in “Mercury” are a trio of rowdy, fatalistic Italian spinsters, Maria’s great-aunts, whose house is full of plastic figurines of saints who are expected to answer their prayers or face their wrath.

From New York Times

Eight years later, she’s a regretful spinster with money problems; he’s a successful, rich naval officer.

From Washington Post