wifeless
Example Sentences
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A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
In the end, Don’s left jobless and wifeless and it’s going to be fascinating to see how Matt Weiner rebuilds him.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2013
Childless, wifeless Lou is a bundle of anger and avarice, and writers Josh Heald, Sean Anders and John Morris load him up with harshly hilarious lines.
From Time ● Mar. 25, 2010
Both wifeless, they were the liveliest members of the U. S. delegation to the London Economic Conference whiled away many a happy shipboard hour dancing with the delegation's young stenographers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chemosh of Moab, for instance, and Asshur of Assyria were alike wifeless.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
