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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.
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.
The premise of The American President is a widowed president dating an environmental lobbyist.
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).
For marital status, we grouped all women who were identified as single, separate, divorced or widowed in the unmarried category.