spinster

Example Sentences

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How could we have guessed as we sat there—two middle-aged spinsters and an old man— that in place of memories were about to be given adventures such as we had never dreamed of?

From Literature

But she said she was nothing but a nervous spinster, and she didn’t think marriage would calm her.

From Literature

Regarded in her time as "a reclusive spinster that never left her house", she was determined to be free to pursue a life of artistic expression.

From BBC

“I’m a geriatric pregnant spinster who puts crystals in her bra,” Helen says in an unusual moment of self-awareness.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was also forty years old—practically a spinster by that era’s standards.

From Literature