1, In the last resort, anything is preferable to spinsterhood.

2, To avoid spinsterhood, she would need the help of her family.

3, Purists argued that celibacy and spinsterhood were positive acts of self-determination, in contrast to the illusory freedom of libertarianism.

4, She had stiffened into a pronounced spinsterhood.

5, The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now.

6, For most women, marriage used to bring a higher status than spinsterhood.

7, Sympathetic murmurs greet this delicate reference to her own spinsterhood, and the hunters then move in for the kill.

8, In Pride and Prejudice, for a woman, generally the only way to her is to get married besides being spinsterhood or governess.

9, The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood.