“Most likely, he would have been an old bachelor and Amalia an old maid.”

“Subdominant males form separate bachelor groups often in isolated ponds or wallows.”

“This individual has a bachelor of arts degree in economics and a master of business administration degree.”

“It was supposed to be the typical El Cerrito, California, bachelorette party.”

“In the end, I picked as my bachelorette a capricious little blonde with ambitions to be a rock diva.”

“Alright, well, with no further adieu, let's bring out our first eligible bachelorette!”

“Ten to one, he is old, and has all the shrivelled, high-dried appearance of the most far-gone and confirmed bachelorism.”

“Often, I say, have I wavered in my faith as to the unapproachable beatitude of bachelorism, when dining out, for example, at a well-appointed marital menage.”

“Numerous initiatives were thus devised and integrated into land settlement schemes to curb bachelorism and promote marriage between white couples.”

“The art direction was quite brilliantly ugly, with Williams's flat a study in lonely bachelordom of the pre-flatpack era.”

“Given his lifelong bachelordom, Hugh has clearly decided that committed relationships or marriage aren't for him.”

“So I want to have one more run in the wilderness in all the freedom of bachelorhood.”

“The prince, whose bachelorhood caused consternation to his father, has said he plans to marry one day but only when he is ready.”

“And even while they were at it, all the guests were waiting for the bridegroom to come out of hiding and put an end to his bachelorhood.”

“Until his engagement a dozen years ago, he was seemingly headed for terminal bachelorship.”

“For my own part I freely confess that, in my bachelorship, I was precisely such an over-curious simpleton as I now advise the reader not to be.”

“He had accomplished a distance vastly greater than a bachelorship of arts, or a dozen bachelorships.”

“So I figured there would be lots of attractive, hopefully eligible bachelors and bachelorettes around my age.”

“Do you want to be soon around town with two of Newport's most eligible bachelorettes?”

“He does and doesn't want to marry as he serially observes his friends' conjugal problems and dallies with three fetching bachelorettes.”

“So I figured there would be lots of attractive, hopefully eligible bachelors and bachelorettes around my age.”

“We have plenty of eligible bachelors in these parts and quite a few eligible ladies too!”

“The place was crawling with good looking, very funny, very intelligent, eligible bachelors!”