Sentence examples for call a spinster from inspiring English sources
What they used to call a spinster".
Baxter is so intensely private that she was once called a spinster long after she had married.
She called herself a spinster and, although unusually social, always seems to have lived alone.
She lived for 25 years with her colleague Catherine Coman in what in those days was called a "Boston marriage" -- two spinsters sharing a domicile.
One of its regular advice columns, which answers readers' problems with poetry recommendations, is called "The Spinster's Almanac".
She was 41, she hadn't had a serious relationship in years and she had no desire to be what she calls the spinster at the table.
Stillman grew so invested in the character that, after he finished filming "Love & Friendship," he wrote a novel of the same name narrated by a character of his own creation, a devoted nephew of Lady Susan's who intends to vindicate his aunt from her withering depiction by the writer he insists on calling "the spinster Authoress".
The lush and rudely punishing "Summertime," made in Venice in 1954, inaugurated a series of films that might be called Hepburn's Spinster Cycle, in all of which an intelligent, middle-aged, and previously independent woman is reduced to desperation by her lack of a man; the old tacked-on endings were now the main event.
When Broadbent conducted a tasting a couple of years ago for a group of 20-something women, called the Spinsters of San Francisco, he knew port had broken free of its fusty, dusty image.
How might a Spinster disguise herself?
