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 • Dec. 15, 2025

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

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Colman plays Edith, an uptight spinster who lives with her elderly parents, and Buckley plays her rowdy Irish neighbor Rose.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 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