husbandless

Example Sentences

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“It will take a lot more than calling me … childless or husbandless to shut me up,” said the 32-year-old lawyer who is pursuing a parliamentary seat in the capital, Harare.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2018

Lori takes three of her recent divorcées off on a European jaunt to help them re-enter a husbandless existence, and they bond: “First Wives Club or bust.”

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2017

My extended family consists almost entirely of fatherless, brotherless and husbandless women.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

When Chloe arrives, odd woman out, Western and husbandless in the tight society of Iranian and American couples at the medical dormitories, she finds that Hugh is unaccountably missing.

From Time Magazine Archive

She may cut off their tails with a carving knife, this husbandless wife, whose school friends are still promenading through their girlhoods.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver