How to Use spinster in a Sentence

spinster

noun
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  • The forty-year-old spinster aunt could only find a 70-year-old to be with her.
    — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In the house lives a spinster who was known in girlhood for her beauty.
    — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Who knows, maybe some of these spinsters just haven’t met the right part-time wedding d.j. yet?
    — Danielle Kraese, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
  • But LeGris wanted to play Masha, the movie star in the show, not Sonia, the gloomy, depressed spinster.
    — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The play focuses on a ranch-owning spinster and a pair of suitors.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Maisie lives with her spinster daughter Betty but Maisie's eyes are just for her son, Hughie.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Daily Southtown, 29 Mar. 2018
  • And the title, the idea of a merry spinster — the idea of jolly, self-sufficient female solitude — that’s very dear to me.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The costume is wrong and the image creates a myth Austen was a demure spinster and not a deep-thinking author.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2017
  • There's time travel, there's the career obsessed spinster in the big city who gets sent to a charming small town, falls in love with a guy and the magic of Christmas.
    — Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Olivia Williams shows up as Lavinia Bidlow, a wealthy spinster with unclear motives.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Pym’s subtly comic stories of spinsters, vicars and church bazaars, like Rosa Lewis’s boiled bacon and broad beans, one day went out of style.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • Last year was a weird one for music: A Scottish spinster singing an old show tune became a YouTube sensation.
    — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2010
  • Anyhow, please don’t dismiss her as a spinster in a backwater.
    — Ted Scheinman, The Atlantic, 22 July 2017
  • One-eyed Marshal Cogburn helps a Bible-toting spinster find the men who killed her preacher father.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Charles’ new wife, a veritable spinster at the ripe old age of 11, was young but at least age-appropriate.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • Badham, who played only a few other movie and TV roles, seemed almost as much an enigma as Lee, a spinster who died last year at age 89.
    — Harold Jackson, Philly.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The first was one Mildred Pratt, an eccentric spinster poet for whom it was built by her Mormon father in 1880.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The spinster was replaced by the cocktail/wine-swigging singleton.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 1 May 2020
  • Girls of gentleness and refinement do not care to be courted upon the open highway, nor in public parks, and thus the world is filling with spinsters who . .
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 23 May 2016
  • The David Bingham of 1893 is a male version of the stereotypical female spinster and hysteric.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Huppert’s turn as the singing, dancing spinster aunt Augustine — a rare comedic performance — was a scene-stealer.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2022
  • At 28 years old, the clever and quick-witted Eloise Bridgerton is single and therefore, considered a spinster in London high society.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 24 Mar. 2022
  • She’s frosty and resistant to intimacy, but not written off as a sad spinster or a dotty loner.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • So, were her parents being welcoming out of relief that their daughter wouldn’t become a spinster or out of surprise that she, as her friends pointed out, had got lucky?
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
  • In the early modern period, the word spinster didn’t mean unmarried woman.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Mrs. Cole’s skill with slop becomes key when the filmmakers spot a newspaper account of two spinster sisters who borrow their dad’s fishing boat and cross the channel to rescue British troops at Dunkirk.
    — Gary Thompson, idahostatesman, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Be a malevolent spinster tornado instead, one that’s spilling over with rage and frustration.
    — The Cut, 13 Dec. 2017
  • This means that whereas there are more single women than men in big cities like Tokyo, bachelors outnumber spinsters in rural areas.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • And yet, for all the hand-wringing over the lonely spinster, the real loser in society—the only one to have made just slight financial gains since the 1970s—is the single man, whether poor or rich, college-educated or not.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 18 May 2015
  • Lonely and viewed as an odd spinster by the entire town for her predilection for speaking her mind, Angelika decides to make her perfect match — literally.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022

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