Example Sentences

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Widowhood isn’t just a cause for mourning but a kind of sump pump for the psyche, voiding everything.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021

Widowhood besieges her, and “in the siege she has lost everything.”

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2020

Widowhood was forced on Lilian Girvan without notice.

From Washington Times • Jun. 19, 2017

A version of this article appears in print on February 27, 2014, on page E2 of the with the headline: On Safari in Widowhood .

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2014

Widowhood is a desolate thing, and poverty oppressive.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor