spinster

Example Sentences

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This image may have been reinforced by a book Augustus wrote about her after her death that painted her as "this crazy spinster lady who lived in Paris".

From BBC • Feb. 7, 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

Ruth Buzzi, the actor who became famous for playing a purse-wielding spinster on ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,’ has died at her home in Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

They're living in a rural village together, two spinster women.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

The meekness of the wire hangers, with their twisted throats and bent heads — they waited too patiently, too neatly, every one a spinster.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen