How to Use widow in a Sentence

widow

1 of 2 noun

• In the snack shop opened by a widow who was once exiled by the gangs.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• The widow is once again blowing in the wind, her hair flying all over the place.
  — Sara C. Hahn, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• The widow didn't have the number and had no idea what she was supposed to do now.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
• It was built by the widow of a man who had been shot to death on that site five years before.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• When Jack died, viewers learned the bad news along with his widow.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
• So does the hair and makeup team, who’ve shaved his trademark widow’s peak and let the gray show through in his beard.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
• Now, the widow has cut back on even the most basic groceries as prices keep rising.
  — Paul Wiseman and David McHugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• And her husband walked out of the hospital a widow, with a newborn son in his arms.
  — Martha Shade, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Elsewhere, a widow’s walk acts as an extension of the home.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2023
• Two days into the cruise, the charms of the Equinox no longer mattered when Robert Jones died of a heart attack, his widow’s lawsuit says.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Officer Diller left behind a young widow, Stephanie, and a one year-old son.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Connolly died in 2017, and his widow could not be reached for comment.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• On the bed next to him sat Yasmine Marjan, an elderly widow.
  — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• An Egyptian widow is struggling to afford meat and eggs for her five children.
  — Paul Wiseman and David McHugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• This disagreement was known to his widow, who was also displeased with me.
  — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2023
• When he was cremated, half of his ashes were given to his widow and half to Ms. Stewart.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2023
• In order to appease them, the house's owner, Sarah Winchester, the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune (and the founder's widow), kept adding on rooms to the house to make more space for the dead.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• Josefina Jimenez, 55, of Juárez, became a widow two days before the shooting.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• His widow, Debbi Hixon, said safety measures could have saved lives.
  — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Vincent died in 1958, leaving his fortune and foundation to his widow, Brooke.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2023
• In 1988, Kennedy Sr.’s widow, Ethel, visited Chavez during one of his roughly monthlong protest fasts.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Then there is the tension that goes with their reputation for falling over (‘widow makers’) — if either one of these giants falls to the east, our home would be crushed.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Ian’s widow inherited a contract that said Spinal Tap owed them one more concert.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023
• Ross was a widow who was struggling to keep her upholstery business going when George Washington and his colleagues asked her to make a flag.
  — Eileen Ogintz, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• Judie Abrahamson, now an 83-year-old widow in Oregon City, Ore., is the only close relative alive.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The director is survived by his widow Lansing, a former studio chief at Paramount Pictures who was his fourth wife, and two sons.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
• After her husband's death, Smith's widow, Miriam, took over his share of the company, according to HistoricDetroit.org.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2023
• One of those windows opens, allowing a person to clamber out and ascend a ladder to the ultimate spot: a widow’s walk with 360-degree views.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• Kenny Rogers' widow, Wanda, recently opened up about the final day of her husband's life, and the people and things that have brought her comfort since the music legend’s death.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 July 2023
• Thrown out of her home and off her land by her in-laws, a Kenyan widow becomes a fighter for women’s land rights in a deeply patriarchal community.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024

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widow

2 of 2 verb

• Recently widowed, Lale finds the courage to tell the world his story.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
• She was widowed by her husband David Gale to whom she was married to for 44 years.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Eleanor was widowed at age 47, when her husband, William Dolan, Sr., died.
  — courant.com, 15 May 2018
• My mother was widowed at 43, left with five children to raise alone.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• Most of those Chauvin helps are women, many of whom are single or widowed.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Elaine Lubkin, who has been widowed for 10 years, gets lonely cooped up alone in her 11th-floor apartment at Park La Brea.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2020
• Making of a lady lawyer Lockwood was widowed at 22 and had a young daughter.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 5 Oct. 2019
• His mother, widowed at 43, had to get a job cleaning houses for the wealthy in Beverly Hills.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
• At the time, Dr. Goldberg and Ms. Levenson were both in their late 60s and widowed after decades-long marriages.
  — Anna Grace Lee, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• The pageant is for women 26 years of age and older who are single, divorced, widowed or married, PRNewswire added.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2018
• The group includes women who are married, divorced and widowed.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• The following year, Thomas Lincoln went back to his home town, where an old crush was recently widowed.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• Back then, Grace, who was jobless and recently widowed, had received 20 cows through the program.
  — refinery29.com, 19 June 2018
• She was widowed by age 40 and moved to South Carolina to be closer to her daughter Jessica.
  — Tom Olsen / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2017
• My sister, who is four years younger, was recently widowed.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
• Around the same time, Kazmi’s mother-in-law, recently widowed, was moving in with her from Pakistan.
  — Monica Williams, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2023
• Every Tuesday while her kids were at school, Maya set aside her overwhelming to-do list as a lawyer and widowed single parent.
  — Jodie Sadowsky, CNN, 4 June 2023
• When Carl, newly widowed, climbs alone up the steps of his house and disappears through the front door, what seemed like half the audience took off their plastic 3-D glasses to wipe their eyes.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• The retired carpenter is recently widowed and has thought about getting back to work.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• The accident widowed his wife, Katharine, then 46, leaving her to support their two sons as well as an unmarried sister.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• Dorothy Brown, widowed with five children, raised them all to respect education and the Catholic religion.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• When Coley’s widowed mother became ill in 2004, Mikali was a caregiver in her final years.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2018
• Margaret Greville was a legendary hostess who married well, spent well, and was widowed early.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2019
• This last case is Annie, an Irish immigrant who came to America for the man who would eventually widow her.
  — Sarah Begley, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
• Streicher described a patient in her 80s who had been widowed since her 60s and had recently begun seeing a man.
  — Tara Bahrampour, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Acela began selling mattresses downtown in 1997, twenty-five years old and newly widowed, with an infant and a two-year-old.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• His wife, Diane Hicks, was suddenly widowed with three children.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Dion’s widowed mother Nicole (Alisha Wainwright) tries to uncover the origin of her son’s abilities and help him control them.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• The victims were often women in their 70s and 80s and either widowed or divorced, according to court documents.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• Doug Tompos gives a heart-wrenching performance as Billy’s widowed Dad.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024