widow

[ UK /wˈɪdə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪdoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
VERB
  1. cause to be without a spouse
    The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia
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How To Use widow In A Sentence

  • It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
  • For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
  • Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
  • One widow, she said, was carrying around $900,000 in uncashed cheques; another confessed to spending $15,000 on designer clothes.
  • The ci-devant banker, then a widower with an only daughter, Esther, had journeyed to England.
  • This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter. Clarissa Harlowe
  • Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
  • But in essence, the short-time Fourier transformation is a method of ingle resolution because it uses an unchanged short-time widow function.
  • You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.
  • Then there was the case of George Godman, whose widowed mother went to the authorities when his master, a tailor by the name of Money, beat him with a horsewhip and knocked him down.
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