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

In the 1500s some towns, such as Chester, England, actually made it illegal for most women to sell beer, worried that young alewives would grow up into old spinsters.

From Salon

At 25 — a hopeless spinster! — she’s constantly reminded that “no man of note wants an unattractive wife.”

From Washington Post

For centuries, Shakespeare’s male biographers twisted these meager facts into a misogynistic scenario: An aging spinster entraps a callow youth and a loveless, mostly long-distance, marriage ensues.

From New York Times