unmarried woman
Example Sentences
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Despite not being buffeted around by the winds of fate as much as Tom is, Sophia is nevertheless a young, unmarried woman.
From Salon • May 22, 2023
Miss Milne was a wealthy, unmarried woman who lived in Elmsgrove Mansion in Broughty Ferry, then a rich suburb of Dundee.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2022
Being a bachelor is not a necessary feature of being unmarried because you can be unmarried and be an unmarried woman.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In some of these colonial illustrations, Malinche’s hair is shown loose, in the style of an unmarried woman, in others, it is bound, marking that she was wed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022
At the time, the term was used to mean an unmarried woman who may live with a man but is not the legal or social equal of a wife—similar to the modern word mistress.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
