single mother

noun

First recorded in 1965–70

A white single mother to a seven-year-old son, she works (or worked) at the local mall, and only recently got into Allah.

I interviewed Lilian, a single mother living in a Rio de Janeiro favela.

Jane was raised in a matriarchal family by her hyper-religious grandma and young, aspiring singer single mother.

Taylor, a single mother and still pregnant, was locked up in jail for two days until charges were dropped for lack of evidence.

She was a teenage single mother in a place bereft of options and Isaias spoke to her about a land of promise.

When daylight came we got them enfiladed by machine guns and every single mother's son of them was either killed or captured.

He loves his kind so much that he has not a word softer than a brickbat for a single mother's son of them.

A kindly touch of the hand, a single mother-smile, and she would have flung her arms about the other woman's neck.

What is the sorrow of a single mother compared to the suffering of an entire nation!

In this way the old nest of the Mason-bee of the Pebbles is colonized, cell after cell, by a single mother.

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