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
• Alonzo, who is a widower, chose his son Zach to be his best man.
  — Sarah Cook, al, 26 Feb. 2020
• 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
• In 1880s New York, a rich and cantankerous widower by the name of Horace Vandergelder is on the lookout for a wife.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2019
• Padalecki plays Cordell Walker, a widower and a father of two.
  — Katey Clifford, al, 21 Jan. 2021
• Her ashes are with her widower — the man who found Sanchez-Cervantes dead or dying — and daughter in Utah.
  — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The film was completed as part of a legal settlement with Hutchins’ widower, with the expectation that some of the proceeds could be used to benefit her son, who was 9 at the time of her death.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
• The premise is an 83-year-old widower answers an ad in the paper and becomes an undercover private detective.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024