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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Declan Miller – a recent widower, ballroom dancer, and devoted smart aleck – has a full plate.
    — Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
  • Nora Ephron directs this story of a widower who moves to Seattle and tries to raise his 8-year-old son, and the Baltimore woman who hears his tragic tale and falls in love.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • On it, a 72-year-old widower looks for love again, and the women featured are senior citizens competing for love.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The once parochial school friends and now a divorcee and widower, Cash and DeNitto were in a serious relationship, Keith said.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024

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