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

Jamie has already worried that though he's thrilled to be with her again, perhaps Claire should not have left their daughter parentless, husbandless, defenseless as he sees it.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2017

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

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother.

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