How to Use one-woman in a Sentence
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Revenues have been doubling year over year, and the team has grown from a one-woman band to a team of 12.
— Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023 -
Josephine soon joined the brothers and became their one-woman sales force.
— Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023 -
Nowadays, Joseph spreads the message of how to live an unmasked life in a one-woman show.
— Allie Caren, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023 -
This win was a huge feat for the one-woman show as celebrities like Kendrick Lamar have been seen sporting her work on the day-to-day.
— Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Dec. 2023 -
He was matched, note for note, by his very talented, one-woman, five-man band.
— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024 -
But, to quote the one-woman generational touchstone known as Pink, what about us?
— Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023 -
Demand has been so brisk that owner McLean Robbins, who ran a one-woman shop before the pandemic, now has a team of 12.
— Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023 -
After roles dried up, Dominique Blanc reclaimed her artistic agency by taking a one-woman play on the road.
— Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024 -
Trending Then there’s Kathy Schroeder, an unrepentant survivor who proves to be a one-woman fount of cringe.
— Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023 -
The story originates from a one-woman play by Aaron Mark, who then turned it into a podcast, and Mark serves as co-showrunner of this adaptation.
— Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 June 2023 -
The film is a 2022 recording of Jodie Comer’s one-woman performance of Suzie Miller’s stage play which has been watched by nearly half a million people worldwide.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 June 2024 -
Kadar Wati runs a mostly one-woman show at Wayang, a small Indonesian restaurant in Alhambra.
— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023 -
These are the recipes that launched a cultural revolution and created a mogul out of a one-woman catering business.
— Leah Asmelash, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024 -
The show is described as a one-woman musical comedy that is definitely NOT about the ever-present specter of death.
— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 July 2024 -
At the time of her pregnancy loss, Anne Hathaway was playing a pregnant fighter pilot in a one-woman off-Broadway show called Grounded.
— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2024 -
The one-woman comedy show by Nicole Travolta (John Travolta‘s niece) tells the story of her love-hate relationship with credit cards.
— Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023 -
There was even a one-woman off-Broadway show styled after the cookbook, in which Norma Jean cooked for the audience while sharing her family’s story.
— Kristen Hartke, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024 -
After Fonda and Tomlin met backstage at one of Tomlin’s one-woman shows, the two quickly found common ground in their careers and personal lives.
— Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 16 June 2024 -
Gloria’s usually a one-woman show on her daytime shift, cooking and scrubbing floors and ringing up orders.
— Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024 -
Mike Tirico, who was behind the mic calling the game, said his team in the booth was well aware of the need to acknowledge the one-woman global phenomenon during Sunday's primetime broadcast.
— David K. Li, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2023 -
The headlining one-woman, eight-man Sure Fire Soul Ensemble specializes in vintage funk and soul-jazz with a fresh contemporary sheen.
— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023 -
Phoebe Waller-Bridge used up most of the material from her one-woman stage show in Fleabag’s first season, but was able to eventually write an even more iconic second batch of episodes that felt like a miracle.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024 -
Emma Chamberlain has become a one-woman Ralph Lauren runway over the last few days, repping everything from archival suiting to Polo tees.
— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 31 July 2024 -
Al-Fayez had begun staging regular one-woman protests outside the Saudi Embassy in London, but media interest soon died down.
— Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023 -
Women’s college hoops booms as a sport, and Clark has led the surge of interest, becoming a one-woman economic force who sells out arenas and sends after-market ticket prices skyrocketing.
— Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024 -
Dakota Johnson has been a one-woman sneaker parade as of late, while Emily Ratajkowski continues to show off her impressive collection of kicks.
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 June 2024 -
Dolores Roach was a one-woman show and then a narrative podcast before it was adapted for Amazon, and the series uses a distracting framing device to acknowledge that history.
— Time, 28 July 2023 -
Jodie Comer stopped performing in the one-woman show Prima Facie on Wednesday after the actress reported having difficulty breathing.
— Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023 -
She’s also fronted a one-woman, 10-minute theatrical production referencing every season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
— Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2023 -
Instead, a large video screen played original sketch comedy videos featuring characters from her one-woman series Turnt Up with The Taylors discussing her career and hilariously trying to steal her spotlight.
— Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
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