one-woman

adjective

: done, performed, or controlled by one woman

a one-woman job/show/play/business

Examples of one-woman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Gloria’s usually a one-woman show on her daytime shift, cooking and scrubbing floors and ringing up orders. —Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024

At the time of her pregnancy loss, Anne Hathaway was playing a pregnant fighter pilot in a one-woman off-Broadway show called Grounded. —Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2024

Parker was nominated for best actress for her role in Plaza Suite, opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, while Snook was nominated in the same category for her one-woman take on The Picture of Dorian Gray. —Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024

Closing out a six-month stay at the International Space Station, a three-man, one-woman crew plunged back to Earth early Tuesday, streaking across the heartland of America like a blazing meteor as their Crew Dragon capsule descended to a Gulf of Mexico splashdown. —William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024

Back in January, Wilde was seen attending the premiere of her friend Kate Berlant's one-woman show Kate at the Pasadena Playhouse. 2022 saw Wilde release Don't Worry Darling, her second effort as a director after 2019's comedy Booksmart. —Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024

After roles dried up, Dominique Blanc reclaimed her artistic agency by taking a one-woman play on the road. —Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024

Women’s college hoops booms as a sport, and Clark has led the surge of interest, becoming a one-woman economic force who sells out arenas and sends after-market ticket prices skyrocketing. —Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024

With better weather expected, SpaceX and NASA geared up for a third attempt Sunday to launch a three-man, one-woman crew to the International Space Station, the first of two crew rotation flights to replace five of the lab's seven long-duration crew members. —William Harwood, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024