widower

noun

wid·ow·er ˈwi-də-wər

Synonyms of widower next

: a man who has lost his spouse or partner by death and usually has not remarried

Examples of widower in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Meg Ryan’s Annie Reed stumbles on the station midway through a late-night drive and is immediately enthralled by the story of widower Sam Baldwin, played by Tom Hanks. —

Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023 Rust resumed and finished production in Montana earlier this year after Baldwin and the film's producers reached a separate settlement with Hutchins' widower Matthew, who shares son Andros with her. —

Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023 Kostka, a widower with no children, died at 75 in March 2018. —

Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023 When Hagen left after season three, the writers made Danny a widower and the show was renamed The Danny Thomas Show. —

Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2023 Raised by a stern widower in a segregated town in North Carolina, Cotton earned a master’s degree in speech therapy from Boston University in 1960, a few years after King met his future wife, Coretta Scott, while studying there. —

James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023 Gerry Turner, the 71-year-old widower tapped to lead off the series by selecting a mate from one of about two dozen mature women temporarily housed together in a mansion, lives on a lake near Hudson. Turner and his wife, Toni, moved to the area upon her retirement in 2017. —

The Indianapolis Star, 21 July 2023 The Golden Bachelor’s leading man is none other than 71-year-old widower Gerry Turner, ABC announced July 17. —

Amaris Encinas, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Aug. 2023 Her grandmother, Kathleen Johnson, was among the widows and widowers in the room. —

Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023 See More

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