widow
Example Sentences
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Even more top prosecutors based in D.C. and Minnesota are leaving after refusing to probe Good’s widow.
From Salon
“Miss Cornelia, your daddy was my friend, and what happened to his brother Matthew that night was a tragedy. I’ll never forget it. Drove his widow right out of town, as I recall.”
From Literature
French, who plays 'widow' Debbie Fendon, said: "This is a sitcom about a very strange little oddball family who commit a massive fraud but pretend that it's no big deal."
From BBC
From being locked out of assets to facing a “widow’s penalty” that can raise tax rates, the transition from a partnership to solo financial management is fraught with potential costs.
Remarkably, her family agrees to their marriage, but when Arturo discovers that the mysterious prisoner held by Puritans is Enrichetta, the widow of the executed King Charles I, he helps her escape.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
