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

This way, each little woman may be introduced properly and given adequate time for her own plots before the inevitable big team-up against The Civil War and Its Privations.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

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

Mrs. Duncan, a little woman with a bird face, started the service.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou