widowed
Example Sentences
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Mr. Underhill was a wealthy insurance executive who had first experimented with Spiritualism when he’d been widowed a few years back.
From Literature
Tracy Morgan stars in Paramount+’s multicam sitcom, a spin-off of CBS’ ‘The Neighborhood,’ and plays a widowed father whose empty nest is disrupted by his adult children’s return.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Hoppy is a retired mechanic who lives in an apartment directly above the widowed Mrs. Silver, the object of his undeclared crush.
The widely circulated photographs of the poet in old age make him a perfect visual counterpart to the widowed Queen Victoria, dressed in her perpetual mourning.
Bilel Saadoui also worked in a hotel in Sousse and he too went on to marry an English tourist, a widowed hairdresser on holiday with her two young children.
From BBC
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