spinster

Example Sentences

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I’m like one of those crazy spinster ladies who listen to the radio at night.

From New York Times

Among the characters in “Mercury” are a trio of rowdy, fatalistic Italian spinsters, Maria’s great-aunts, whose house is full of plastic figurines of saints who are expected to answer their prayers or face their wrath.

From New York Times

Eight years later, she’s a regretful spinster with money problems; he’s a successful, rich naval officer.

From Washington Post

‘Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte’ Bette Davis plays the titular Southern spinster in this twisted 1964 psychological thriller directed by Robert Aldrich.

From Los Angeles Times

Her spinster role is one of naïveté, innocence and inexperience.

From Salon