How to Use widow in a Sentence

widow

1 of 2 noun

• Even in her many years as a widow.
  — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
• Scott’s widow and two daughters sat in the front row.
  — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 2 May 2026
• The brown widow has been found here, but is less common.
  — Eva Flowe may 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
• The widow’s house has become our grassy knoll.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
• In the snack shop opened by a widow who was once exiled by the gangs.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Donna was left a widow for the second time in her life.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
• When Jack died, viewers learned the bad news along with his widow.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
• It was built by the widow of a man who had been shot to death on that site five years before.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, Del, a widow, learns to open her heart again.
  — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
• The widow is once again blowing in the wind, her hair flying all over the place.
  — Sara C. Hahn, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• The widow didn't have the number and had no idea what she was supposed to do now.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
• The sound of this widow weeping echos throughout this world like a battle cry.
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
• The sound of this widow weeping echos throughout this world like a battle cry.
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
• The sound of this widow weeping echoes throughout this world like a battle cry.
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
• But his promise to visit Bolduc’s widow nagged at him.
  — Kevin Maurer, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
• Now, the widow has cut back on even the most basic groceries as prices keep rising.
  — Paul Wiseman and David McHugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• The wives and the widows busy themselves with memories of the past.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
• In fact, many widow and recluse bites are dry, meaning no venom is released.
  — Eva Flowe may 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
• Kaitlin, his widow, told me that the program had offered him a sense of purpose.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• The grieving widow also shared that their kids are struggling with the loss.
  — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
• At the cemetery, drug-war widows unleashed on him the full force of their anger and anguish.
  — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
• The widow lands a huge settlement.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
• This sentiment echoes words from Good’s widow last week.
  — Sarah Davis, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2026
• The lawsuit Bryan’s widow filed is still pending.
  — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2026
• So does the hair and makeup team, who’ve shaved his trademark widow’s peak and let the gray show through in his beard.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
• And her husband walked out of the hospital a widow, with a newborn son in his arms.
  — Martha Shade, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Now a widow, Suzi de Givenchy had three boys with Hubert.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Oksana Borkun knows a lot about the stigma of being a young widow.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
• Many are wives or widows of IS fighters and their children.
  — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026

widow

2 of 2 verb

• My husband has a sister who is widowed and lives out of state.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
• Fikry is recently widowed, and bookstore sales are in a slump.
  — Susan Coll september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
• My mother was widowed at 43, left with five children to raise alone.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• In her 80s, she was widowed and lucky enough to remarry.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
• Most of those Chauvin helps are women, many of whom are single or widowed.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Recently widowed, Lale finds the courage to tell the world his story.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
• Some were married, some single, some divorced, some widowed.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2026
• Chernow’s Hamilton ends there; widowed Eliza gets a scant nine pages.
  — Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
• Many claim to be widowed, traveling for work or working overseas.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
• Ray was unexpectedly widowed a year-and-a-half ago.
  — Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 30 July 2025
• The group includes women who are married, divorced and widowed.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• She was already widowed when her son died of smallpox in 1879, at the age of twenty-four.
  — Anika Burgess, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
• Now Johanna is in her fifties and recently widowed, her one child grown and living abroad.
  — Elaine Blair, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• Leaders may not realize how many of their members are single, divorced or widowed.
  — Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2026
• Making of a lady lawyer Lockwood was widowed at 22 and had a young daughter.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 5 Oct. 2019
• Over a period of 13 years, she was orphaned, married and widowed with a young daughter.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026
• Married and widowed twice more, Betsy Ross bore seven daughters.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
• Newly widowed, my grandmother also found a purpose in these meetings.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
• His wife, Diane Hicks, was suddenly widowed with three children.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• The following year, Thomas Lincoln went back to his home town, where an old crush was recently widowed.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• Margaret Greville was a legendary hostess who married well, spent well, and was widowed early.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2019
• Back then, Grace, who was jobless and recently widowed, had received 20 cows through the program.
  — refinery29.com, 19 June 2018
• Similar to how the series portrayed her, Sidney returned home to help her widowed brother.
  — Caroline Blair, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Every Tuesday while her kids were at school, Maya set aside her overwhelming to-do list as a lawyer and widowed single parent.
  — Jodie Sadowsky, CNN, 4 June 2023
• His mother, widowed at 43, had to get a job cleaning houses for the wealthy in Beverly Hills.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
• Around the same time, Kazmi’s mother-in-law, recently widowed, was moving in with her from Pakistan.
  — Monica Williams, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2023
• Doug Tompos gives a heart-wrenching performance as Billy’s widowed Dad.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• The accident widowed his wife, Katharine, then 46, leaving her to support their two sons as well as an unmarried sister.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• Dorothy Brown, widowed with five children, raised them all to respect education and the Catholic religion.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• In fact, more than 50 percent of the single members of Jonestown were divorced or widowed Black women.
  — Sarah Rex, JSTOR Daily, 20 Aug. 2025