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Example sentences for: widowed

How can you use “widowed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(There are secondary reasons: Syd wants to take care of her widowed father, Amy wants to get away from life with her ex-husband.)
She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.
--A brash young man (Kirk Douglas) plots to marry a rich heiress but finds himself smitten instead with her mute widowed grandmother (Lillian Gish).
I was widowed when I was 47 and have been on my own for five years.
Perhaps Jane's widowed human father will wed Tarzan's widowed gorilla mother (so the Southern Baptist Convention should be worried about bestiality but not homosexuality).