spinster

After Wood’s death at age 50 in 1942, Graham took up the fight, aiming to persuade people that her brother had depicted her as a spinster daughter still living at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

But she brushed off the barbs, saying: "I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster – what the hell."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

There he meets with his chosen mark: Perla Hildegarda Inclán Arnao, a middle-aged spinster from a fallen family of coffee barons whose reserved nature doesn’t jibe with her passionate letters.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

“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 ● Dec. 15, 2025

She was a spinster teacher from school, one of the strict ones.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

As her New York Times obituary put it, “She specialized in sourness, or, more politely, acerbity, which she used to her comic advantage in roles as housekeepers, spinsters, wicked stepmothers, nuns and back-talking secretaries.”

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2019

"This is the nature of the debate on things this big, like tax reform," Ryan said."You've got pundits and spinsters and all of this spinmeisters out there, you know, confusing the public."

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2017

Southern belles, frustrated spinsters, power-hungry TV execs, nuns, clergymen and even kings and queens.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2012

It felt like two spinsters sitting at home watching time and the world go by us.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2011

And yet she could see her two daughters, two spinsters beyond the marriageable age; they were at least twenty-five.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan