How To Use Widowed In A Sentence

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.
The countess of Lincoln, twice widowed, once by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and once by Ebulo Lestraunge, and therefore with two dowers, as well as being the Lacy heiress in her own right, was a very worthwhile prospect for anyone on the rise.
Now widowed in her early 50s, she faces the future with some anxiety, despite the growing success of her work.
Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody.
Another obvious gender difference was in the marital status of the testators: while male testators were single, married, and widowed, most women's testamentary documents, at least those that have survived, were written by widows. 50 Most of these were disposing of relatively small estates, often in exchange for support in their old age, and they tended to be less preoccupied with maintaining properties in the patriline, although this may simply have been a reflection of the lesser significance of the properties they were transferring. Gutenber-e Help Page

On his release, the widowed trickster evidently won himself a rich wife among the élite Jewish merchant class in Frankfort.
His reformist thinking was evident when he arranged for the remarriage of his young widowed daughter.
The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia
The proportion of married women falls to just over two in ten, and the proportion widowed rises to nearly two-thirds.
The widowed mum of four was a church warden and a keen charity fundraiser. The Sun
And if the woman is widowed, she finds herself in your position. Get the Best out of the Rest of Your Life
Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez. Starting from Scratch
Minus One is a social support group for separated, widowed or divorced people.
In 2006, widowed, Mr. Jandali remarried and now lives on a cul-de-sac in a gated Reno suburban community.
In both cases they had been widowed relatively young, but in neither case was their gender a disqualification in their assumption of authority.
The high-achieving sisters have since been widowed. Times, Sunday Times
Cruelly widowed in her prime, she remarries one of the wealthiest men in the land. The Sun
She was widowed in 1910 and resumed her performing career in Europe, where the fine quality and traditional correctness of her music caused astonishment.
Then soon he had the widowed Mrs. Lovell with her brood on his hands, and his old dream of pantisocracy was realized, only not just as he expected. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
A widowed woman also takes over her husband's contributions up to the point of his death. Times, Sunday Times
Married and cohabiting couples were also found to be happier than those who were divorced or widowed. Times, Sunday Times
If a woman without sons is widowed, she is the ultimate casualty.
Once she reaches the depths of rural south Texas, a small town called La Salle, the visions intensify until she is barely able to distinguish between reality and hallucination, leading her to a strange friendship with a man she soon realizes to be the widowed husband of the dead woman. The Return (2006)
No longer solely reserved for the single, "lonely" now labels the widowed, divorced and even the married. S. Isabelle Harounian: The Case For Loneliness
Tottering around with a martini glass, Charlotte Akin is delightfully blowsy as the widowed Queen Margaret -- a woman who relishes her bitterness. Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough
His widowed mother brought furniture from their Edinburgh home when she moved out to join her son. The Times Literary Supplement
She had by this time assumed the name of Carol Jones and was living in Soho with her widowed mother.
I couldn't believe that the year was almost over and of all things - being on the way to Israel to visit my widowed mother - I wasn't going to be able to find a minyan to say Kaddish.
Personally, I appreciated the importance of being able to empathize with a newly widowed or soon-to-be-divorced client.
Remarriage for widowed individuals beyond childbearing age was traditionally greeted with community ribaldry, since a sexual relationship was being entered into without the end of family-building.
Women are more inclined to make prearrangements only because they are more likely to be the surviving spouse: 70 percent of married women will be widowed.
She had six children from her first marriage when widowed, and made a precarious living as a travelling saleswoman.
He would push us to resolution and not dilly-dally around, as though someone else needed to help the children and the aged, the orphans and the widowed. Donna Schaper: A Jesus Look At The Issues Du Jour
Considine had proved himself with his 2007 Bafta-winning short Dog Altogether, which starred Mullan as Joseph, a violent, widowed, unemployed self-hating drunk who meets a middle-class housewife Colman in a charity shop. Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things'
The widowed father of two is thought to have had heart problems and may have lost his balance after suffering a heart attack. The Sun
It was a great misfortune that she was widowed so young. Times, Sunday Times
Given the missteps by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- who called a widowed retiree a bigot in off-camera remarks last week -- Labor in particular is bracing for what may be its biggest defeat since 1983, when Margaret Thatcher won a second term and the party was exiled from No. 10 Downing Street for another 14 years. British elections could deliver a blow to two-party rule
And if the woman is widowed, she finds herself in your position. Get the Best out of the Rest of Your Life
She was also moved by the way he cared for his widowed father. Times, Sunday Times
Please state whether you are single, cohabiting, married, separated, divorced or widowed.
She was thrice widowed, and she claimed to possess the gift of augury.
Women often are widowed and as there are more women than men of marriageable age, there is a relatively high number of polygamous households.
A woman is suddenly widowed and agrees to a supposedly temporary marriage of convenience to help a recently bereaved father. The Sun
Witnesses have told investigators that the newly-widowed first lady was part of a circle of that "rejoiced" when news was brought of the murder of political opponents. The Guardian World News
- they live "not far from court" (Lussurioso 1.3.90) but since Gratia is recently widowed, she does not appear to have any suitors through whom she could advance her material status. Draft: Women's Negotiations of Moral and Material Status in The Revenger's Tragedy
Once she reaches the depths of rural south Texas, a small town called La Salle, the visions intensify until she is barely able to distinguish between reality and hallucination, leading her to a strange friendship with a man she soon realizes to be the widowed husband of the dead woman. The Return (2006)
These two take it upon themselves to deliver the dreaded yellow telegrams to the newly-widowed women living around them.
Add to that women who are divorced or widowed and there are now almost as many single women as there are married.
It was a part of folk wisdom that providing houseroom for a widowed parent could lead to intense family friction.
Read in studio A woman widowed by a drunken driver has collected a fifty thousand signature petition demanding tougher sentences for offenders.
At the moment, the group is small and comprises people who are divorced, separated or widowed.
But Vanderbilt's parents passed on a shrewd and merciless business sense — his mother once foreclosed on her own widowed daughter's mortgage — and as a young man he quickly found a mentor in Thomas Gibbons, whose battle against a steamboat rival led to the landmark Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which struck a blow for antimonopolist laissez-faire principles. The Sage of Steam
Please state whether you are single, cohabiting, married, separated, divorced or widowed.
There are others far more deserving of your hand. There is Alfred, the shy divinity student lodging with Reverend and Mrs. Baxter, and our cousin Joseph, and of course, Mr. Pratt, the widowed pig farmer who is 30 years your senior but quite prosperous.
Women were also divided, with single and widowed women claiming a prior right to employment over married women.
Those who were widowed were free to re-marry; this was an entirely different issue.
On Wednesday, Brown -- who stumbled badly on the campaign trail last week after he was caught calling a widowed retiree a bigot -- was trying to shore up his campaign. On eve of British election, shake-up in Parliament is forecast
She would still have a spare bedroom, quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state.
The difference being that when I tripped over my sister's knee and lost an early lead in the three‑legged race, the footage of me dragging her over the line in joint-15th place was not beamed around the field in slow-motion, accompanied by the string music from made-for-TV weepies about newly widowed fathers. Why it was all or nothing for Rory McIlroy at the Masters
Mrs Handley, of Highfield Avenue, Wortley, said the job became a lifeline after she was widowed five years ago.
My mother died at 75, again widowed, bitter, and crippled by arthritis. A Discussion with Irmgard Hunt, author of On Hitler's Mountain
The duke of Mayenne poniarded one of his most devoted followers for having aspired to the hand of the duke's widowed daughter-in-law. The Age of the Reformation
Sarwer, can't guarantee satisfaction for patients who yearn for what he calls secondary benefits, such as, 'I'm recently widowed and want to get back into the dating scene.' A Nip and a Tuck
A woman is suddenly widowed and agrees to a supposedly temporary marriage of convenience to help a recently bereaved father. The Sun
The wife who becomes widowed is a human being, entitled to live in a happy family, Arab or Israeli. Anwar Al-Sadat - Nobel Lecture
Personally, I appreciated the importance of being able to empathize with a newly widowed or soon-to-be-divorced client.
He was crucifying people who were recently widowed in a most horrific way, people who were still in the grips of devastation.
She is friendly and generous, using her earnings to aid a recently widowed neighbour. The Times Literary Supplement
In a deep embayed window of leaded glass Mistress Yordas and her widowed sister sat for an hour, without many words, watching the zigzag of shale and rock which formed their chief communication with the peopled world. Mary Anerley
Widowed at an early age, she ruled alone without her adored Albert and made the era redolent with the ritual of death and mourning.
After the war she kept house for her widowed father. Times, Sunday Times
More and more young men are widowed by cancer.
Widowed in 1949, Mrs Hayes never remarried.
Personally, I appreciated the importance of being able to empathize with a newly widowed or soon-to-be-divorced client.
Firstly, a widowed grandmother may be remembered as moving into the family home.
He has been widowed for three years and is still mourning his beloved wife. Times, Sunday Times
There's Mog Edwards, the draper in love with Miss Myfanwy Price; Polly Garter, the town prostitute in love with babies; and the formidable Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, twice widowed, who keeps a boarding house but will not have any guests in it lest they breathe on the furniture. A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices
Fewer women are being chased from their homestead and land when widowed.
A spouse divorced from the primary eligible, or widowed and remarried, is not eligible for interment.
Bored by the duties put upon her by society, her wealth, and widowed blessedness, she had journeyed into the Northland and gone to housekeeping in a cosey cabin on the edge of the diggings. LI-WAN, THE FAIR
She was widowed nine years ago and has recently suffered health problems that mean she can no longer go out as much as she used to. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs. Anton, a twenty-three-year-old college student, was striving to emancipate herself from a highly dependent yet conflictful relationship with her widowed mother. Planned Short-Term Treatment
Widowed and divorced women are pressured to remarry or become dependents in a brother's or married son's household.
Life Loan is available to married couples, partners and single or widowed people.
She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy. Gravity's Rainbow
Far instance, if the claimant be a mother, the affidavit must state that there is living neither wife, child or father of the deceased; if the father, that there is neither wife or child; and if the child, that there is no widowed wife* Guide for Claimants of Deceased Soldiers, Being Instructions to Army Officers and to Claimants, with a Collation of the Laws of Congress and the Orders from the War Department, and the Rules of Practice in the Offices of the Second Auditor and Comptroller
Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress, hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother - Denise, Henrys ex. The Family Man by Elinor Lipman: Book summary
Soon there was also a house for nuns of which Augustine's widowed sister became ‘mother’.
The ending she placidly anticipates is a perfect marriage for her long-widowed mother; it is, she thinks, right and normal that Mrs. Cunningham should spend the interim years resting in a chair instead of engaging in what her daughter dismisses as "some productive occupation. The Mistress of Gloom
His old lovers are a mix of married, single and widowed women who lead a mix of uptight, safe, and slightly loopy lives.
Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
She gets married abruptly, then abruptly widowed, then she has an abrupt falling-out with her nephew, and so on.
My grandmother, who had been widowed many years before, was a tall, statuesque woman with a kind and gentle face and manner.
And although she did an enormous amount of visiting commonwealth countries after her widowhood, she was of course widowed at the tragically early age of 51.
My wife's granddad, a three-war Air Force officer, flew Lightings against the Zeroes and Bettys in the Aleutians and New Guinea before he was shipped back to run a flight school in Texas and met her grandmother, recently widowed from the love of her life by bombing runs over Japan. Where we won the War we started by almost losing it
He could have used the same tone of voice to convey his sympathies to a recently widowed aunt.
She would still have a spare bedroom, quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state.
I'm a 28-year-old newly widowed woman. The Sun
She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy. Gravity's Rainbow
Moreover, should she in her widowed state even consider a lover? Society would not tolerate it.
Maryam claims onlooker status to distance herself from the blithering Donaldsons and to dodge the advances of Bitsy’s widowed father, but her aloofness is really ontological, an innate standoffishness familiar to Tyler’s readers. New Fiction
For years I called my widowed father every Sunday. Aspects of Silence
Lennox had been widowed in 1986 when her husband Tom died at the age of 61 after a long illness.
She was surprisingly shy, considering the bold way she had recruited April as a foster mother when she became widowed.
Astragals, writhing and hanging heere and there, making the capitall thrise so big as the bottom thereof of the columne, wherevpon was placed the Epistile or streight beame, the greatest part decayed, and many columnes widowed and depriued of their Capitels, buryed in ruine both Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
The first time my mother was widowed, she was left with six male dependents.
They are widowed, or have never married, and are generally childless.
He was widowed four years ago and has four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Always pandering to the widowed special interest groups, this president, and undermining the definition of nunship. Hospital Visitation Rights for Gays and Lesbians? What Next, We Let Them Pay Taxes? | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central
The widowed mum of four was a church warden and a keen charity fundraiser. The Sun
Yes," answered the unelated, considerate girl-Queen, "but the widowed Queen is not to be reminded of the fact first by me. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
PC Collis said the typical victim was female, aged about 70, and often recently widowed.
Please state whether you are single, cohabiting, married, separated, divorced or widowed.
After Marrying her father's half-brother Corinne Dollanganger is widowed, and forced to return to her astringed family home with her four children. BookFinder.com Journal
He'd said he was a widowed father and worked as chef. The Sun
We have a strong practice in Islam called ardth [family honour]," he says. "When a woman like Amal is widowed, it is a duty upon all Muslims to look after her and ensure her safety.
All spent idyllic summers visiting their widowed grandmother, Emma Darwin, at Down House, the old homestead in the Kent countryside.
Lydia gave him a look in which he thought he could recognize a certain nonerotic tenderness, something not all that familiar to him even as a young boy with a widowed mother who had been in fashion in her era. The Houseguest
Clare Higgins invests the widowed teacher with a repressed sensuality that evokes the great Anna Magnani.
In addition, there may well be stepchildren from a previous marriage for a widowed woman. Times, Sunday Times
She is friendly and generous, using her earnings to aid a recently widowed neighbour. The Times Literary Supplement
The widowed pair found their platonic arrangement suited them both.
He claimed that all the others in his group were burned at the stake, but that he was saved and married by a sachem's widowed daughter, whose dowry included European scalps.
Her grandmother was widowed and they burned her alive in suttee, a Hindu practice the British stopped.
They are widowed, or have never married, and are generally childless.
More and more young men are widowed by cancer.
With her death, the Eakins household consisted of three unmarried sisters, a maiden aunt, Tom, and his widowed father.
As the new 20th century approached, Mary Jones was an aging, poor, widowed Irish immigrant, nearly as dispossessed as an American could be.
His affection is, however, gained by one of the dogs in the kennels: Katy, an abandoned bulldog with whom he senses an obscure empathy (related, no doubt, to his feeling of affinity with the widowed and loverless Teresa).
Canadian women tended to marry young and, if widowed, to remarry quickly, unlike their counterparts in France.
His widowed mother still lives nearby. Times, Sunday Times
They are run by proprietors who are not heartless businessmen, but who provide free places to orphans and those with widowed mothers. Times, Sunday Times
The word maudlin (67), and the complicated mixed metaphor in which the gilded toy of line 68 apparently becomes a sweetmeat in 69, suggest that Shelley is subtly alluding to the Prince of Wales's sentimental love affair with the twice-widowed Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837), a Roman Catholic whom he could not wed legally without forfeiting the crown. The Devil's Walk (Broadside version)
If the two spouses do not agree there arises a three-cornered conflict to determine which one of them will be widowed.
Widowed and alone, pudgy Sara comforts herself with sweets and television.
At her age, working in an office could have been the prelude to a diamond solitaire and a farewell bridal shower, but the acne and the wagonful of baggage (the widowed mother and the crippled sister) were liabilities she could not overcome. Sex and the Married Man
Married and cohabiting couples were also found to be happier than those who were divorced or widowed. Times, Sunday Times
All spent idyllic summers visiting their widowed grandmother, Emma Darwin, at Down House, the old homestead in the Kent countryside.
Weir, who was known as Peggy to her neighbours, was widowed 10 years ago.
She has herself been recently widowed and come to the conclusion that Horace and his fortune will make her the perfect mate.
This was 10 years ago, after my widowed mother suddenly became ill and unexpectedly died. Christianity Today
The male is considered the head of the household, except where it is headed by a divorced or widowed woman.
The fishermen and fisherwomen formed a Free Society of Fishermen to defend their legal rights and to protect the widowed and orphaned.
Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann Ulysses
Many people who develop late-onset Alzheimer's have already been widowed.

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