Examples of little woman in a Sentence
I'll check with the little woman about whether we can go.
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The institute soon found out that most women who responded to the survey quoted Dana Scully from X-Files as an inspiration, but the response also shows how very little women in STEM careers are depicted on-screen.
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Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Yet at the center of this world—and of the novel—is a drab little woman who has no time for frivolity.
—Anna Mundow, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
Thompson is also a disability rights speaker, facilitator and consultant who has osteogenesis imperfecta (commonly known as brittle bone disease) and is also a little woman who uses a wheelchair, and is hard of hearing.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
The millennial ideal includes a two-person wash-dry routine, rather than the little woman stacking plates into her dishwasher alone, pods of Cascade Complete in hand.
—Rebecca Gale, Marie Claire, 3 Apr. 2018
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Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Yet at the center of this world—and of the novel—is a drab little woman who has no time for frivolity.
—Anna Mundow, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
Thompson is also a disability rights speaker, facilitator and consultant who has osteogenesis imperfecta (commonly known as brittle bone disease) and is also a little woman who uses a wheelchair, and is hard of hearing.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
The millennial ideal includes a two-person wash-dry routine, rather than the little woman stacking plates into her dishwasher alone, pods of Cascade Complete in hand.
—Rebecca Gale, Marie Claire, 3 Apr. 2018
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“Little woman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/little%20woman. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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