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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Both my father's sisters were spinsters.
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Sally lives with her mother and her spinster aunt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dried-up old spinster like that talking of love!
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And what about us inveterate spinsters, us permanent bachelors?
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As in Ireland, there are many frustrated bachelors and spinsters, and there are frequent late marriages.
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In 1973 Wendy Ellis, poor Wendy, a spinster , died aged thirty-five of liver failure.
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It had been clear from the start that the spinster had taken an instant dislike to both Ashi and her daughter.
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That she should ever marry was not in his mind, though a spinster on the boards would hardly do.
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There did seem to be a lot of spinsters in the twenties.