old maid

Example Sentences

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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

“Your piano’s an old maid with a gray tabby on her lap,” Rosetta says bluntly.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016

I wonder if Tfa Eufemia is trying to jinx me so her three old maid daughters stand a better chance?

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez