How to Use widowhood in a Sentence

widowhood

noun

• When my mother was dying, one of her biggest fears was that Buster, the beloved new dog of her widowhood, would have nowhere to go.
  — Nicole Chung, Time, 6 Apr. 2021
• The widowhood effect has been documented in all ages and races around the world.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
• What has widowhood taught you about being a single man again?
  — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2021
• Honorifics should be used on envelopes, and widowhood does not change the lady’s form of address.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
• Prayer took us both through abusive marriages and later on, widowhood at a young age.
  — Bea L. Hines, miamiherald, 1 May 2017
• Nothing can prepare you for widowhood, but people can help you through it.
  — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2020
• Margot Friedlander survived the Nazis’ labor camps in Germany, and then the pain of widowhood.
  — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Eleanor, who still wanted an annulment (or maybe a widowhood), travelled in her own ship with her own retinue.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2018
• The siblings sharply disagreed over how to handle their mother’s widowhood.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
• Her new book, The Best of Us, is about a topic of interest to this aging demographic: widowhood.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2017
• Della was whistling How long, how long, have that evenin’ train been gone, and my ladies of the Rachmaninoff eyes were reminiscing, in their widowhood, beyond my reach.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• The four mothers met years ago and have maintained a close bond through the usual challenges of infidelity, illness, divorce and widowhood.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
• The off-kilterness of Sarah’s comment, and her inability to grasp the reality of widowhood, is a shock.
  — Julia Rothchild, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2020
• My husband had died a year earlier and I was used to being examined for symptoms, as if widowhood might be catching.
  — Kathryn Davis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
• Each of us saw the other through great personal joys and also deep personal sadness, through illness, loss, and widowhood.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Alzheimer's strikes many more women than men, and the study authors suggest widowhood may explain some of that discrepancy between the sexes.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
• Facing widowhood, and the realities of aging, a handful of Brits decide to flip retirement on its head.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2018
• Loretta’s widowhood is acknowledged in brief mentions, but the directors know better than to squeeze in mournful flashbacks or even spell out how the nameless man died.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• This year, Herwad became the first village in the state to prohibit widowhood rituals, followed by others.
  — Kanika Gupta, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2022
• His producer eventually introduced him to Lustig, and to his story of widowhood and grief.
  — Saul Austerlitz, New Republic, 28 Aug. 2017
• During the long years of widowhood, women at my mother’s retirement home fought loneliness.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 7 Aug. 2019
• Upon his release at war's end, Claypoole traveled to Philadelphia to inform the seamstress of her widowhood.
  — Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 4 July 2021
• This kind of widowhood wasn’t that different from throwing herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.
  — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
• In the Chicago suburbs, a free support group called Culinary Grief Therapy directly addresses the link between food and widowhood.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
• In fact, the real faces of war are torn and displaced communities, women suffering the ravages of rape and widowhood, children with missing limbs and orphans without the hope of education and health care.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
• The final section, Nell & Tig, contains four ruefully humorous stories about how Nell copes with widowhood.
  — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• After his father died, Cary had flown to Tampa and then driven north to the retirement community where his dad had ended his days in a condominium that had grown lonely in his widowhood.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• Of course, that increases the likelihood of early widowhood and financial hardship.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2010
• And Poorna Jagannathan, who plays Devi’s mother Nalini, was also pleased with how the story allowed its women to grow and evolve, especially beyond the confines of widowhood.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 June 2023
• The beginning of Victoria's mourning dovetailed with the American Civil War, when widowhood became widespread and black dresses became a common sight.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024