spinster

Example Sentences

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French-American author Lauren Elkin, who writes on art and culture, said a mythology pervaded that she was "this reclusive spinster that never left her house and lived at home with her cat making her paintings".

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

"Why is spinster somehow negative? I really think it's great."

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2023

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

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson