How to Use widower in a Sentence

widower

noun
  • The funds are aimed to assist her widower and two sons.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • His widower simply can’t cope with his two young sons or his grief.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The victim was a widower and lived alone.
    — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Alonzo, who is a widower, chose his son Zach to be his best man.
    — Sarah Cook, al, 26 Feb. 2020
  • My father was forty, and had been a widower for fifteen years.
    — Rachel Cusk, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Suzanne Somers' widower has found love again — with one of his late wife's former costars.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 26 June 2025
  • Is this just wish fulfillment for horny old widowers?
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2026
  • What happens to the widower with a daughter whose mother has died?
    — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Her husband of just a few years is a widower; his late wife was Cooley’s close friend.
    — Meghan Daum, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • My friends had made the man sound an ancient mariner, an invalid widower, near dead from a lurid litany of injuries.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The widower lived there alone, with his cats, until his death in 1937.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2022
  • Louis, a widower himself, agrees, and the two forge a connection.
    — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The widower now lives comfortably in a mobile home park.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Crockett just got a new sheriff as well, a widower with a son who works out of the back of the general store.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Her task is to educate the two daughters of a British widower.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
  • The widower told me stress from the house ordeal contributed to her passing.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • His stepfather, who was also a widower, has four kids, while the poster has two siblings.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Near the urn, a man approached the widower and expressed his sympathy.
    — cincinnati.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • One widower said memories of his wife are stained with the thoughts of what Fuller did to her body after her death.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The widower signed up for a motorcycle safety course and rode through the Alps with his son.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Widows and widowers caring for the worker’s child.
    — Miranda Marquit, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Feb. 2026
  • An interior designer brings new life to the house of a widower and his daughter and finds love in the process.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Lockwood, who focused more on fine art for much of her career, initially refused the job for the widower.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026
  • Padalecki plays Cordell Walker, a widower and a father of two.
    — Katey Clifford, al, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Brian Kitchen, an 80-year-old widower, lost his wife to cancer a couple of years ago.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 13 July 2025
  • In that moment, Liam became the full-fledged fantasy of the widow who falls in love with a widower.
    — Carole Radziwill, Town & Country, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The two widowers eventually met through the two daughters.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • In the case of McGuire, the gun owner was a recent widower who had been diagnosed with melanoma.
    — Eli Saslow, courant.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The 61-year-old became a widower after the death of his wife Audrey from a tumor.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, hunky Irish head of peds Cormac Hayes, a widower and a dad, arrives.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025

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