How to Use widower in a Sentence

widower

noun

• Works said the 77-year-old widower was like an uncle to her.
  — Rob Gillies and Robert Bumsted, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2022
• The widower lived there alone, with his cats, until his death in 1937.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2022
• Crockett just got a new sheriff as well, a widower with a son who works out of the back of the general store.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
• Gregory Richard Carmichael, 69, was in fact a widower, and his son was the owner of Apres, which has since closed.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Hutchins’ widower, Matthew, filed a lawsuit a year ago.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• Her task is to educate the two daughters of a British widower.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
• One widower said memories of his wife are stained with the thoughts of what Fuller did to her body after her death.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
• In 1870, when her aunt died, one of the executors to the will was the Reverend Wynter Thomas Blathwayt, who was a widower.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• For example, for about 40 years before Buchanan's time in office, there had been a string of widowers in the White House.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, hunky Irish head of peds Cormac Hayes, a widower and a dad, arrives.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
• The widower told me stress from the house ordeal contributed to her passing.
  — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
• An out-of-work teacher is forced to take a job with the Santa Squad to bring the magic of Christmas into the lives of a widower and his two daughters.
  — jsonline.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Anne Egerman, an 18-year-old virgin married to Fredrik, a stuffy middle-aged widower, totes a bird cage.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• The new lawsuit is filed by widower Bruce Sudano, who’s served as executor of his late wife’s estate since the singer died in 2012.
  — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• Now Marder, a widower and Holocaust survivor, is speaking out about his painful past, with Spektor at his side.
  — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 20 June 2024
• The next year, Estella’s widower, Victor Emanuel Boone, took his own life.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• And The Golden Bachelor, about a widower looking for a new spouse in his 70s, was a ratings success.
  — TIME, 26 Dec. 2023
• Her grandmother, Kathleen Johnson, was among the widows and widowers in the room.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• Jay Duplass brings his best shambling hangdog moves to the role of Ji-Yoon’s crush, Bill, a recent widower in the heavy-drinking-and-screwing-up-at-work phase of grief.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2021
• Now, Jim will have a smaller standard deduction as a widower than when George was alive.
  — David Rae, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• Their idyll there is interrupted by the arrival of Uncle George, who is a widower.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 26 May 2023
• The widower of a Texas elementary school teacher killed in a shooting has died of a heart attack days just days after his wife was killed.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 May 2022
• Jim Johnson, who is now an 81-year-old widower, lives with several dogs in a pale-yellow house in North Dakota.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• At the gravesite, a health-care provider suddenly let loose on the elderly widower, degrading him about his lack of caring for his wife.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
• Domingo is a 65-year-old widower whose village is being harassed to make way for the construction of a mega highway.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Dec. 2021
• But she is drawn back into the supernatural game in order to help a sad and very needy widower (Barry Ward), haunted by the ghost of his late wife.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Chief among them is Tom Hibbard, a widower and metalworker who helps him find his first jobs.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• The most pervasive story is of a poor widower who worried that his three daughters would never be able to marry.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2021
• Without the civilizing influence of true love, the widower returns to his roots, teaching Brooke how to track, shoot and lie.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Short has been a widower since his wife Nancy Dolman died of ovarian cancer in 2010.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024