spinster

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 ● 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

"She's described in the record as a spinster," said Prof English.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

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

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

"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

For the Lowells, it turns out, are a fascinating bunch: spinsters, ministers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, factory builders, poets, college presidents and soldiers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

Between 1934 and 1939, two "nervous British spinsters" were regular visitors to the opera houses of Germany and Austria.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2017

It’s a message that doesn’t exactly allay the anxieties the book claims to be militating against—namely that we spinsters aren’t choosing our fates, we’re just losers in the marriage market.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015

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