old maid
Example Sentences
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My dad was divorced, and my mom was an old maid by Belarusian standards.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025
If they chance upon the foul water, they are set to marry a widow or widower and if they choose the empty dish "the person is destined to be a bachelor or an old maid".
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023
One instance was fairly low stakes: she told my sister-in-law I had called her an old maid, which was not true.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2021
Still, we suspect that she is a sad case, a solitary old maid gabbing to her niece about happier times.
From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017
His mind went on to the two women in the house, the tight-lipped old maid and the girl.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
