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Example sentences for: spinster

How can you use “spinster” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"What tedious work it is," confessed a spinster aunt tending to her fatherless nieces and nephews in 1860.
I, for one, am convinced that there's a good reason the Old Lady is a lifelong spinster.
The richness of language, image, and imagination all contrast with her austerities and stringencies: Nothing could be further from the beloved middlebrow notion of Dickinson as a charmingly dotty, fey spinster or wistful girl, all eccentricity and repression.
There's your requisite bawdy spinster, and the co-worker who's a systems analyst by day and a wig-wearing rumba dancer by night.
Beginning in her late 20s, while packed into a snug cottage with her mother, her sister, and a pockmarked spinster friend, she revised some juvenilia and wrote a series of freakishly perfect novels.