How to Use one-woman in a Sentence

one-woman

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  • Revenues have been doubling year over year, and the team has grown from a one-woman band to a team of 12.
    Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Josephine soon joined the brothers and became their one-woman sales force.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Nowadays, Joseph spreads the message of how to live an unmasked life in a one-woman show.
    Allie Caren, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • This win was a huge feat for the one-woman show as celebrities like Kendrick Lamar have been seen sporting her work on the day-to-day.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Dec. 2023
  • He was matched, note for note, by his very talented, one-woman, five-man band.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • But, to quote the one-woman generational touchstone known as Pink, what about us?
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Demand has been so brisk that owner McLean Robbins, who ran a one-woman shop before the pandemic, now has a team of 12.
    Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Has anything surprised you about being onstage as an actor in your one-woman show?
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Trending Then there’s Kathy Schroeder, an unrepentant survivor who proves to be a one-woman fount of cringe.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Dietrich did indeed wear a beaded gown for her 1967 one-woman show on Broadway.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The story originates from a one-woman play by Aaron Mark, who then turned it into a podcast, and Mark serves as co-showrunner of this adaptation.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 June 2023
  • The film is a 2022 recording of Jodie Comer’s one-woman performance of Suzie Miller’s stage play which has been watched by nearly half a million people worldwide.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 June 2024
  • Kadar Wati runs a mostly one-woman show at Wayang, a small Indonesian restaurant in Alhambra.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • These are the recipes that launched a cultural revolution and created a mogul out of a one-woman catering business.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The show is described as a one-woman musical comedy that is definitely NOT about the ever-present specter of death.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 July 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
  • The one-woman comedy show by Nicole Travolta (John Travolta‘s niece) tells the story of her love-hate relationship with credit cards.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • There was even a one-woman off-Broadway show styled after the cookbook, in which Norma Jean cooked for the audience while sharing her family’s story.
    Kristen Hartke, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • After Fonda and Tomlin met backstage at one of Tomlin’s one-woman shows, the two quickly found common ground in their careers and personal lives.
    Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 16 June 2024
  • 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
  • Mike Tirico, who was behind the mic calling the game, said his team in the booth was well aware of the need to acknowledge the one-woman global phenomenon during Sunday's primetime broadcast.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The headlining one-woman, eight-man Sure Fire Soul Ensemble specializes in vintage funk and soul-jazz with a fresh contemporary sheen.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge used up most of the material from her one-woman stage show in Fleabag’s first season, but was able to eventually write an even more iconic second batch of episodes that felt like a miracle.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
  • Emma Chamberlain has become a one-woman Ralph Lauren runway over the last few days, repping everything from archival suiting to Polo tees.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 31 July 2024
  • Al-Fayez had begun staging regular one-woman protests outside the Saudi Embassy in London, but media interest soon died down.
    Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
  • 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
  • Dakota Johnson has been a one-woman sneaker parade as of late, while Emily Ratajkowski continues to show off her impressive collection of kicks.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 June 2024
  • Dolores Roach was a one-woman show and then a narrative podcast before it was adapted for Amazon, and the series uses a distracting framing device to acknowledge that history.
    Time, 28 July 2023
  • The festival culminates with Carla Hall’s debut of her one-woman show, a truly special moment that promises to be both entertaining and inspiring.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 11 Sep. 2024

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