spinster

Example Sentences

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French-American author Lauren Elkin, who writes on art and culture, said a mythology pervaded that she was "this reclusive spinster that never left her house and lived at home with her cat making her paintings".

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

“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 • Dec. 15, 2025

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 • Jul. 12, 2024

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

From Salon • May 6, 2023

Without anything being said openly, the fact remained that the daughter had sacrificed her life to care for the mother, and that she had become a spinster for that reason.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende