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How to use widow in a sentence

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Last Monday, I told my girlfriends at work that this whole football widow business was driving me crazy.
You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator.
Following his death, his widow Ruth, who was just 27, quit Wiltshire and returned home to America.
The agony aunt's first quest is to help golf widow Joy to persuade husband Martin to spend more time with her and their three children.
She had her own pension from the Ministry of Defence as a war widow as well as a state pension.
He followed the story of a widow whose ceremony took place in the sacred river of Pouktiou.
Evening Press readers are rallying round a war widow who was robbed of her life savings by a heartless conwoman.
Now it happened that the lot fell on the only son of a widow who approached the close of her life, and who lived near the king's stronghold.
Miss Grimes's distinctive voice and manner cut through the tedium even as she makes her first acidulous comment about the widow Harbury.
In 1736 Calderwood married Elinor Streeter, widow of the jeweller and lapidary William Streeter.
On her husband's death, a widow usually foresees a life full of harassment and humiliation.
Having won the fight, Hamlet married his brother's widow Gertrude who acquired the status of jointress rather than that of queen dowager.
The husband dying soon after this connection, Stanley became more at liberty to pay his addresses to the widow.
A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg.
If you can't get to that point, then I'd give you the same advice I gave this hockey widow, only in fishing language.
Last year his widow sought a High Court order making her administrator of his estate to allow her to collect any cash.
If at the time of her death, a widow leaves no eligible minor child, the payment of her share of the pension will cease.
His widow yesterday told of her astonishment at discovering her husband's debts after his death.
On 6th January 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, by repute the wealthiest widow in Virginia.
After Goldensohn's death, his widow sold some of his papers and bequeathed the rest to her children.
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And the widow heard his report at bedtime with something like satisfaction.
There before him sat a dear little widow knitting a bellyband for someone else's baby.
What a good saint is our Ignatius, exclaimed the consolable widow, he bestows on us more benefits than we ask for!
In 1896, lured by the gold rush, he left for California with his mother, then a widow.
A childless widow is a coparcener with the brothers of the deceased, and forfeits this right if she remarries.
He has to visit the widow Gubbins, who fell down the cornhouse steps the week before, and broke her leg.
They spare neither widow nor fatherless, nor have they so much as a bed to lie on.
Early one Sunday morning the widow, accompanied by the bank manager and the undertaker, left town to exhume the remains.
Of all the anticipatory mourners, the most demonstrative was the sympathetic widow.
But though he was gone, the widow was not a whit more gracious to Captain Blackbeard.
The widow Gamelin bemoans the dearness of victuals, cause of all the trouble.
The widow or children of any decedent are entitled to the same amount from his estate for her or their use.
The dear creature was no less shy when the widow first accosted her at her alighting.
He had thought to bulldoze the widow and her son, but he was getting decidedly the worse of the encounter.
Traces of the French descent which the widow boasted of were apparent in Winnie too.
If I despoil the bulls of their skins, you are not too proud to despoil one of the husbands of the widow.
They all knew, though the widow would not own it, that destitution was at her door.
The aged widow, now in her eighty-ninth year, still survives, occupying her home in this Colorado town.
Today it is easy to find a widow who has at great cost to herself in pain, danger, and disablement, borne six or eight children.
Resolved, That a copy of the same be mailed to his widow at Gainesville, Georgia.
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