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How to use spinster in a sentence

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In the course of her work as suffragette organiser Miss Schuster, a spinster, we are told, used to firebomb pillar boxes.
Bening plays the spirited Sue Barlow, a spinster who has waited to meet the right man.
Only God can help if you are wheatish you will probably die an old spinster.
Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on.
Beginning to think you are going to be left on the shelf forever and end up as an elderly spinster dying alone and being eaten by your own cats?
He also came to know a half-witted spinster who, having stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver, was to be hanged for it.
Being a prim and proper spinster, Jane Austen did not use the family scandal in any of her novels.
The boy has won a hand of piquet, and the spinster has noticed that he has difficulty enjoying triumphs.
I want you to realize that are better choices than being a lonely spinster.
His cantankerous old mother and frustrated spinster sister are a constant drain on his increasingly shaky resources.
Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind.
Mme D. likes to pull strings, and uses her pallid lady's companion, the spinster Capulat, as her factotum.
Against a soundtrack of depressing spinster ballads from Natalie Merchant and tori Amos, the images flooded the room.
The dubitations of a Bostonian spinster may be made as interesting, by one genius, as a fight between a crocodile and a catawampus, by another genius.
Miriam Turner, an English spinster in her fifties moved to a new neighborhood in London to practice fortune telling.
One afternoon she had a nice visit with her friend Eileen Carter, a well-fixed spinster.
There were, though, other loves that belied the appearance of a desiccated, workaholic spinster.
With a dismal home life and no prospects for advancement at the millinery store, the lonely spinster has little hope of escape through marriage.
Winter, readers, has arrived, taking up residence with all the bulk and temerity of a spinster aunt come to visit, laden with cats and carpet bags.
Susan, a spinster who has never been kissed, has named me as the man she wants to end this unfortunate situation with.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The spinster was not more than forty, and rather good-looking, in spite of her angularity.
A widow's degree of blandishment is conservatively estimated at twenty-five spinster power.
Indeed, she was as prim and old-maidish as any spinster lady possibly could be.
The old Cobbler, like the ancient spinster and handloom weaver, is retiring into the shade of the boot and shoe factory.
He was on Heart of Oak, she high above him, perched like a bird on tall old silvertail, who looked like a spinster and was one.
My quaint New England spinster is gone and with her all the point of my playlet.
Her own idea was that, if she lived long enough, she would become a spinster.
This was hewing close to the line, and Mormon glared at him while the spinster sniffed.
There's a woman living next door, a spinster, answers to the name of pimpernel.
The spinster aunt uttered a piercing scream, burst into an hysteric laugh, and fell backwards in the arms of her nieces.
It would have pleased Richard best to have had her remain a spinster.
Spinner and spinster are the only pair of such words, which still survive.
Now this lady was a thin, yellow spinster, with a sharp nose and inquisitive eyes, who saw everything and gossiped about all she saw.
What good mother is there that would not commiserate a penniless spinster, who might have been my lady, and have shared four thousand a year?
And she gave the spinster an encouraging pat on her shoulder.
But you all think it must be dreadful to be a moneyless spinster of fifty.
That insinuating gentleman sighed deeply, fixed his eyes on the spinster aunt's face for a couple of minutes, started melodramatically, and suddenly withdrew them.
Miss Allan meanwhile murmured with the curious intimacy which a spinster often achieves with dogs, to the fox-terrier which Evelyn had at last induced to come over to them.
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