How to Use spinster in a Sentence

spinster

noun

• The forty-year-old spinster aunt could only find a 70-year-old to be with her.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• In the house lives a spinster who was known in girlhood for her beauty.
  — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• But LeGris wanted to play Masha, the movie star in the show, not Sonia, the gloomy, depressed spinster.
  — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
• The play focuses on a ranch-owning spinster and a pair of suitors.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2022
• Maisie lives with her spinster daughter Betty but Maisie's eyes are just for her son, Hughie.
  — Jessi Virtusio, Daily Southtown, 29 Mar. 2018
• And the title, the idea of a merry spinster — the idea of jolly, self-sufficient female solitude — that’s very dear to me.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 13 Mar. 2018
• The costume is wrong and the image creates a myth Austen was a demure spinster and not a deep-thinking author.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2017
• There's time travel, there's the career obsessed spinster in the big city who gets sent to a charming small town, falls in love with a guy and the magic of Christmas.
  — Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2019
• Olivia Williams shows up as Lavinia Bidlow, a wealthy spinster with unclear motives.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
• Pym’s subtly comic stories of spinsters, vicars and church bazaars, like Rosa Lewis’s boiled bacon and broad beans, one day went out of style.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• Last year was a weird one for music: A Scottish spinster singing an old show tune became a YouTube sensation.
  — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2010
• Anyhow, please don’t dismiss her as a spinster in a backwater.
  — Ted Scheinman, The Atlantic, 22 July 2017
• One-eyed Marshal Cogburn helps a Bible-toting spinster find the men who killed her preacher father.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Charles’ new wife, a veritable spinster at the ripe old age of 11, was young but at least age-appropriate.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• Badham, who played only a few other movie and TV roles, seemed almost as much an enigma as Lee, a spinster who died last year at age 89.
  — Harold Jackson, Philly.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The first was one Mildred Pratt, an eccentric spinster poet for whom it was built by her Mormon father in 1880.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Mar. 2022
• The spinster was replaced by the cocktail/wine-swigging singleton.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 1 May 2020
• Girls of gentleness and refinement do not care to be courted upon the open highway, nor in public parks, and thus the world is filling with spinsters who . .
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 23 May 2016
• The David Bingham of 1893 is a male version of the stereotypical female spinster and hysteric.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• Huppert’s turn as the singing, dancing spinster aunt Augustine — a rare comedic performance — was a scene-stealer.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2022
• At 28 years old, the clever and quick-witted Eloise Bridgerton is single and therefore, considered a spinster in London high society.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 24 Mar. 2022
• She’s frosty and resistant to intimacy, but not written off as a sad spinster or a dotty loner.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2022
• So, were her parents being welcoming out of relief that their daughter wouldn’t become a spinster or out of surprise that she, as her friends pointed out, had got lucky?
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
• In the early modern period, the word spinster didn’t mean unmarried woman.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• Mrs. Cole’s skill with slop becomes key when the filmmakers spot a newspaper account of two spinster sisters who borrow their dad’s fishing boat and cross the channel to rescue British troops at Dunkirk.
  — Gary Thompson, idahostatesman, 28 Apr. 2017
• Be a malevolent spinster tornado instead, one that’s spilling over with rage and frustration.
  — The Cut, 13 Dec. 2017
• This means that whereas there are more single women than men in big cities like Tokyo, bachelors outnumber spinsters in rural areas.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• And yet, for all the hand-wringing over the lonely spinster, the real loser in society—the only one to have made just slight financial gains since the 1970s—is the single man, whether poor or rich, college-educated or not.
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 18 May 2015
• Wentworth, now a wealthy captain, returns to find Anne unmarried—practically a spinster at 27 years old.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 June 2022
• Miranda has a high-powered career as a lawyer but is constantly cast as a sexless spinster, a pseudo-lesbian. Consider the arcs of the four main characters.
  — Default Friend, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024