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Example sentences for: widowed

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--A brash young man (Kirk Douglas) plots to marry a rich heiress but finds himself smitten instead with her mute widowed grandmother (Lillian Gish).
He fitted them together late at night, over the kitchen table in an undistinguished house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, after his handicapped brother and a tiresome, widowed mother, with whom he shared the house, had gone to bed.
One hears such stories with one's eyes unwet:She woke up one day and found that the TetOffensive had left her widowed with a totWho broke her heart as if it were a toy.Luck having given her one so-so try,Wrung out her life and left her bones to dry.
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.
In one of several exculpatory post-election editorials, the Wall Street Journal notes that votes were much more evenly split among married women than among divorced, widowed, or unmarried ones.