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How to use spinsterhood in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word spinsterhood? Here are some examples.

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Or perhaps, in a more generous mood, you'd have her turning 40 and sinking gracefully into the silent oblivion of confirmed spinsterhood.
Betty, the eldest and headed for spinsterhood, works as a nurse for Mike, a middle-aged medico married to the middle sister, Ann, who is pregnant and unhappy.
Instead, the girls seem to have drifted into worlds of their own — one into young motherhood, the other into spinsterhood.
With the exception of Emma Woodhouse, all the Heroines are penniless and have no dependable prospect other than comfortless spinsterhood.
If a young woman had not yet tied the knot by the age of 23, she and her family would begin to worry that she might be doomed to spinsterhood for life.
The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood.
Being unmarried at age 22 brought fears of spinsterhood.
In an entertaining but fundamentally unsatisfying reclamation of spinsterhood, Kate Bolick puts a stake through the heart of Bridget Jones, the singleton who wanted to be anything but.
Examples from Classical Literature
Six months ago, I yearned to have her as a prop for my spinsterhood, but that Dark Age is about to be folded by.
The consolations of spinsterhood are mainly negative, but the minus sign has its proper place in the personal equation.
India and the colonies may absorb a good many, though these places also do duty in the absorption of spinsterhood.
It was evidently Miss Hathaway's treasure box, put away in the attic when spinsterhood was confirmed by the fleeting years.
There was no doubt his friendship had saved her from the worst perils of spinsterhood.
She told me once that she was confident my nose was the cause of my spinsterhood.
And later on, when she came to be boss, she still kept to spinsterhood.
Or do you look forward to spinsterhood in a cottage with a canary?
The Moon Pearl is the story of young women of the scenic Pearl River Delta, who make vows of spinsterhood and circumvent the usually harsh life of forced marriage in China.
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