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Example sentences for: widowed

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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.
In the past two years, the Czech president has been widowed, lost a lung to illness, married an unpopular actress, engaged in a nasty real-estate feud with his brother, and watched rival politicians demolish his vision of Czech society.
I was widowed when I was 47 and have been on my own for five years.
All items of underwear in my possession were purchased either by me or by my widowed mother.
For marital status, we grouped all women who were identified as single, separate, divorced or widowed in the unmarried category.