single woman

Example Sentences

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Finally, well into middle age, I stopped caring about getting married and focused on how good my life as a single woman was.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

I am a 73-year-old single woman who lives 10 miles from the ocean in the western Gulf area of Florida.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 28, 2026

Like my mom, Mary was an impressive, aspirational single woman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

I’m a 51-year-old single woman, and I’m a fully signed-up bitcoin owner.

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

Incidentally, Newsweek once stated that the chances of a college- educated single woman over thirty-five getting married were smaller than her chances of being killed by a terrorist.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos