widow

Example Sentences

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Inside a tented mosque, she sits on the floor listening to a litany of woes from women, many of them widows, living in grinding poverty and pain, without assistance.

From BBC

Others have compared it to meme stock mania, or called silver the “devil’s metal” and “widow maker,” arguing that a future price drop will surely send many believers to hell.

From The Wall Street Journal

His widow Louise has claimed there were a number of failings in his care and that she only discovered he had an aspergillus fungal infection after his death.

From BBC

Don’t miss: ‘I‘m facing an ethical dilemma’: My widowed mother is cutting my step siblings out of the family trust.

From MarketWatch

More recently, she portrayed ousted studio head turned film producer Patty Leigh in the Apple TV comedy “The Studio” as well as widowed therapist Gail in HBO’s survival drama “The Last of Us.”

From Los Angeles Times