How to Use widower in a Sentence

widower

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stephen poses as a bumbling old widower in need of a lightweight vacuum.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Caregiver Amanda Normand begged the 71-year-old widower to stay with her inland.
    — Jeff Amy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024

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