spinster in English

noun
1
an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.
He is a gigolo, a love 'em and leave 'em flimflam man who promises widows and spinsters marriage and devotion on the premise of a substantial upfront cash payment.
synonyms:unmarried woman
noun
adjective

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "spinster" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "spinster", or refer to the context using the word "spinster" in the English Dictionary.

1. Maybe an old spinster cook.

2. A spinster is a bachelor's wife.

3. " Spinster magician dies alone, eaten by cats. "

4. There's nothing shameful in being a spinster.

5. A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.

6. Don't take me easy because I'm a spinster!

7. Sally lives with her mother and her spinster aunt.

8. An elderly spinster, she had never been very involved in politics.Sentencedict.com

9. Well you needn't call me ma'am as if I'm some haggard spinster..

10. It'sounds like some old spinster with a pleated skirt and frilly blouse.

11. Paralysed Spinster Rosemarie, had been paralysed down her right side since birth.

12. His spinster sister, Alice, lived with him and was his principal legatee.

13. A widow's degree of Blandishment is conservatively estimated at twenty-five spinster power

14. In America law and custom alike is based upon the dream of spinster.

15. " Just my sister in New Mexico, " he volunteered. " But she's a humble spinster nun. "

16. 6 His spinster sister, Alice,(www.Sentencedict.com) lived with him and was his principal legatee.

17. I do not think Tom actually loves his spinster aunt . Its simply cupboard love.

18. In 1973 Wendy Ellis, poor Wendy, a spinster, died aged thirty-five of liver failure.

19. However, some of college's crisis are originated her menopause chaos -- she is an old spinster.

20. So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were glittering on the table.

21. He caricatured her as an obsessive spinster, and she became a footnote in biographies of Wells.

22. Harriet's Aunt Gertrude, a nervy spinster who lived with Uncle Bertie's household, sat as still as possible.

23. That she should ever marry was not in his mind, though a spinster on the boards would hardly do.

24. The parents' defence of their own interests was complicated by a vicious attack on Outram as the archetypal spinster.

25. For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster.

26. She was destined to remain a spinster, finding work as a domestic servant in - of all places - far-away Surrey.

27. Yet she can not find an entirely satisfactory alternative, for the life of the spinster is often portrayed in stark terms.

28. It had been clear from the start that the spinster had taken an instant dislike to both Ashi and her daughter.

29. Pressing spinster Auntly business (I have to lounge by a pool again, dammit) will keep me away from my desk today, but I can’t see leaving yall without a photograph of some quiche

30. Beyond sat a pair of humble lovers, Artlessly holding each other by the hand, a somber spinster eating peppermints out of a paper bag, and an old gentleman taking his preparatory nap behind a yellow bandanna

31. Crewel was released on October 16, 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and follows a young girl in a dystopian society that is pulled from her family due to her ability as a Spinster to manipulate the world via weaving.

32. Christie (1890-1976) set the standard for the genre in more than 60 novels and dozens of short stories, creating two iconic detectives along the way: the fastidious Belgian Hercule Poirot, and the English spinster Jane Marple in the Miss Marple series.

33. Forsooth a great Arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine A fellow almost damned in a fair wife, That never set a squadron in the field Nor the division of battle knows More than a spinster--unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the togaed consuls can propose As masterly as he.

34. In Dickens’ Dombey and Son, published in 1848, the impoverished, aging spinster, Miss Tox, is described as wearing “round her neck the Barrenest of lockets, representing a fishy old eye.” Though eye miniatures were most typically set in all types of jewelry — lockets, brooches, rings, watch fobs — they were also set in other objects