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
• Has anything surprised you about being onstage as an actor in your one-woman show?
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 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
• Dietrich did indeed wear a beaded gown for her 1967 one-woman show on Broadway.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Ramen by Ra, named for its owner, Rasheeda Purdie, is a one-woman operation.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 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

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025