widowhood
noun
wid·ow·hood
ˈwi-dō-ˌhu̇d 
-də-
Examples of widowhood in a Sentence
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Withdraw into sadness, into widowhood, but she’s driven by a very healthy intellectual ego, that she’s got to go forward with life.
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Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
Her firm caters to women navigating life changes, and produces a podcast, Financially Ever After, that has covered divorce and widowhood.
—Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
Della was whistling How long, how long, have that evenin’ train been gone, and my ladies of the Rachmaninoff eyes were reminiscing, in their widowhood, beyond my reach.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
The siblings sharply disagreed over how to handle their mother’s widowhood.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
For the millions of seniors in the United States (predicted to grow from around 58 million to around 88 million by 2050), life transitions such as experiencing widowhood, having a partner with dementia or downsizing after decades in the same home can be a huge challenge.
—Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
And Poorna Jagannathan, who plays Devi’s mother Nalini, was also pleased with how the story allowed its women to grow and evolve, especially beyond the confines of widowhood.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 June 2023
After hearing the performance, Berg’s formerly reserved but suddenly empowered wife, Helene, forcefully declared the opera complete and proceeded to dedicate what turned out to be an extended widowhood—forty-one years—to making certain that the unfinished act 3 remained unfinished.
—George B. Stauffer, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
For someone who spent much of her life in the public eye, Noor — elegant as ever at 69 — remains something of an enigmatic figure after a long widowhood spent largely in the United States and Britain: deliberate in her utterances, immersed in humanitarian causes, never remarrying.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
Her firm caters to women navigating life changes, and produces a podcast, Financially Ever After, that has covered divorce and widowhood.
—Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
Della was whistling How long, how long, have that evenin’ train been gone, and my ladies of the Rachmaninoff eyes were reminiscing, in their widowhood, beyond my reach.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
The siblings sharply disagreed over how to handle their mother’s widowhood.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
For the millions of seniors in the United States (predicted to grow from around 58 million to around 88 million by 2050), life transitions such as experiencing widowhood, having a partner with dementia or downsizing after decades in the same home can be a huge challenge.
—Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
And Poorna Jagannathan, who plays Devi’s mother Nalini, was also pleased with how the story allowed its women to grow and evolve, especially beyond the confines of widowhood.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 June 2023
After hearing the performance, Berg’s formerly reserved but suddenly empowered wife, Helene, forcefully declared the opera complete and proceeded to dedicate what turned out to be an extended widowhood—forty-one years—to making certain that the unfinished act 3 remained unfinished.
—George B. Stauffer, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
For someone who spent much of her life in the public eye, Noor — elegant as ever at 69 — remains something of an enigmatic figure after a long widowhood spent largely in the United States and Britain: deliberate in her utterances, immersed in humanitarian causes, never remarrying.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
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“Widowhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widowhood. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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