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
• At the time, Mr. Wright had been a widower for two years and she had been divorced for five years, Mr. Langston said.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• Sheikh Sabah was a widower and is survived by three sons.
  — Fiona MacDonald, Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Beau’s and Hunter’s mother and sister died in a 1973 car crash that made Biden a widower.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
• 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
• His son, Alex Murdaugh, father of Paul and widower to Maggie, is also a lawyer in the area.
  — NBC News, 13 June 2021
• What happens to the widower with a daughter whose mother has died?
  — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2020
• Maxwell, a wealthy widower, hires her to be the nanny to his three children: Maggie, Brighton, and Grace.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Mar. 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
• In that moment, Liam became the full-fledged fantasy of the widow who falls in love with a widower.
  — Carole Radziwill, Town & Country, 22 Dec. 2020
• Meanwhile, hunky Irish head of peds Cormac Hayes, a widower and a dad, arrives.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
• Near the urn, a man approached the widower and expressed his sympathy.
  — cincinnati.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• The widower told me stress from the house ordeal contributed to her passing.
  — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
• An interior designer brings new life to the house of a widower and his daughter and finds love in the process.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Padalecki plays Cordell Walker, a widower and a father of two.
  — Katey Clifford, al, 21 Jan. 2021
• Oh, and adorable widower Michael A. continues to be adorable.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 July 2021
• 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
• There is a widower, a common presence in the holiday movie world.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Hutchins’ widower filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Baldwin and others involved in the movie’s production, and reached an undisclosed settlement in the suit last year.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
• Rust went back into production in spring 2023, with director Souza returning, and Hutchins' widower Matthew on board as an executive producer after reaching a settlement with the filmmakers.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024