spinster

Example Sentences

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“I’m a geriatric pregnant spinster who puts crystals in her bra,” Helen says in an unusual moment of self-awareness.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was also forty years old—practically a spinster by that era’s standards.

From Literature

"She's described in the record as a spinster," said Prof English.

From BBC

The author is looking for a job and taking allergy shots so that she can one day become a spinster with two cats.

From Los Angeles Times

"Look at me," she declares to her spinster daughters in one scene.

From Salon