spinster

How To Use spinster In A Sentence

• "Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."
• Sharing the tiny apartment were one of his grandmothers and a spinster aunt. Times, Sunday Times
• Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
• The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer
• Winter, readers, has arrived, taking up residence with all the bulk and temerity of a spinster aunt come to visit, laden with cats and carpet bags.
• Being a prim and proper spinster, Jane Austen did not use the family scandal in any of her novels.
• Bening plays the spirited Sue Barlow, a spinster who has waited to meet the right man.
• Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on.
• She was destined to remain a spinster, finding work as a domestic servant in - of all places - far-away Surrey.
• Marital instability, a growing number of female breadwinners, an increase in spinsterdom and domestic conflicts engendered by the humiliations and subservience of most men's work experience, influenced women to be more socially assertive! SPEECH BY MR C MABENA: WOMEN CELEBRATING THE DECADE OF FREEDOM ON THE PATH TO TOTAL EMANCIPATION