little woman

Example Sentences

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She loved breaking taboos, especially the idea of the little woman at home, cooking, without much more to their lives, she recalls.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2023

“I’m not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” she said to the interviewer.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

“The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2020

“You know, I’m not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” she said defiantly, an Arkansas twang in her voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2018

She was a disagreeable little woman, no longer young, who had quarreled with almost everyone, owing to a temper which was self-assertive and a disposition to trample upon the rights of others.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin