How To Use Maiden aunt In A Sentence
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It might be an idea to leave your dear old maiden aunt behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Virginie is sent to Paris at the behest of a rich maiden aunt who desires to educate her to receive her fortune.
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Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home.
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Be careful in this colour as you could end up looking like either your maiden aunt Mable or one of the VonTrapp children.
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With her death, the Eakins household consisted of three unmarried sisters, a maiden aunt, Tom, and his widowed father.
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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
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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.
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The man of letters and the maiden aunt.
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Three married aunts had left home, so there were only five maiden aunts at Loynton at the time we were speaking of.
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My first name sounds like someone's maiden aunt.
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Ah well, there are maiden aunts aplenty in my family, maybe I am keeping up that tradition instead.
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"She inherited the place from a maiden aunt, " Erica said.
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No wonder young gels and maiden aunts were prone to fainting back in the day.
The Sun
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A maiden aunt who's allergic to nuts keels over after two bites of the tortoni.
Nuptial Indemnity
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Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home.
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The maiden aunt who was invited to Walsingham House arrived in a four-wheeler.
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Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
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When he was eighteen months old, the family broke up, his care passing to a maiden aunt.
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The young Oxonian, on the contrary, had led out one of his maiden aunts, on whom the rogue played a thousand little knaveries with impunity: he was full of practical jokes, and his delight was to tease his aunts and cousins; yet, like all madcap youngsters, he was a universal favorite among the women.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Instead, a frenziedly spirited troupe of backing dancers is left to pick up the slack, while Britney clambers aboard various moving parts of machinery and is wheeled around like an ancient maiden aunt being taken for her morning perambulation in a bath chair.
Britney Spears review
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They were all ‘clean’ shows to which one could take one's maiden aunt - indeed the cast of the shows contained only a few females.
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Hillary, on the other hand, would be spending time with that maiden aunt who reads nothing but the Bible.
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The maiden aunts of Mortimer Brewster, as it turns out, are not totally responsible for their actions, as insanity, to varying degrees, runs in the family.
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Your aupair may be a born maiden aunt.
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Maiden aunthood is an unhappy estate, and grows worse with habit.
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
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It might be an idea to leave your dear old maiden aunt behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four years later, when Lotty was sixteen years old, we find one of the maiden aunts writing that her sister Rachel had taken Lotty and her mother to see Eccleshall church.
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No wonder young gels and maiden aunts were prone to fainting back in the day.
The Sun
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In 1926, DH Lawrence stayed there with a couple of maiden aunts while he corrected proofs of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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Sambrooke, his mother and surviving sisters took possession, and the maiden aunts moved out to Shackerley Hall near Albrighton.
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I wouldn't hesitate to use them in speaking to my maiden aunt (- in-law).
Ensename, por favor!
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She decides to pack an overnight case and visit her maiden aunt, off in the country.
