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

They had come to see this little woman for themselves, and by the time the match was well into the second set, there were several thousand of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

“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

While not responsible for starting it, Lee was the little woman who made the values of the civil rights movement — particularly a feeling for the god-awful unfairness of segregation — real for millions.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2016

With a handsome gesture he waves toward us—and the little woman goes from one to another and smiles at us and hands round the sausage; she now looks quite handsome.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque