How To Use maiden aunt In A Sentence
- It might be an idea to leave your dear old maiden aunt behind. Times, Sunday Times
- But Virginie is sent to Paris at the behest of a rich maiden aunt who desires to educate her to receive her fortune.
- Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home.
- Be careful in this colour as you could end up looking like either your maiden aunt Mable or one of the VonTrapp children.
- With her death, the Eakins household consisted of three unmarried sisters, a maiden aunt, Tom, and his widowed father.
- Mr. Griffith Donne's principal trial was the existence of an elderly maiden aunt, who did not approve of him, and was in the habit of expressing her disapproval in lengthy epistolary correspondence, invariably tending to severe denunciation of his mode of life, and also invariably terminating with the announcement that unless he "desisted" (from what, or in what manner, not specified) she should consider it her bounden duty to disinherit him forthwith. Vagabondia 1884
- In the summers his mother used to return with the kids from Limerick to her native Dublin, where he would be surrounded by his granny and a selection of doting maiden aunts.
- The man of letters and the maiden aunt.
- Three married aunts had left home, so there were only five maiden aunts at Loynton at the time we were speaking of.
- My first name sounds like someone's maiden aunt.