How to Use widowhood in a Sentence

widowhood

noun
  • What has widowhood taught you about being a single man again?
    — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Nothing can prepare you for widowhood, but people can help you through it.
    — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Fast-forward 40 years and my cousin has moved back home after widowhood.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2024
  • The widowhood effect has been documented in all ages and races around the world.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Honorifics should be used on envelopes, and widowhood does not change the lady’s form of address.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The siblings sharply disagreed over how to handle their mother’s widowhood.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Eleanor, who still wanted an annulment (or maybe a widowhood), travelled in her own ship with her own retinue.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2018
  • When my mother was dying, one of her biggest fears was that Buster, the beloved new dog of her widowhood, would have nowhere to go.
    — Nicole Chung, Time, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Kat begs him to stay and spare her widowhood, and given that their kid can’t have been dead more than a month, a better husband would probably listen.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 July 2024
  • This kind of widowhood wasn’t that different from throwing herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.
    — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
  • Each of us saw the other through great personal joys and also deep personal sadness, through illness, loss, and widowhood.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • During the long years of widowhood, women at my mother’s retirement home fought loneliness.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 7 Aug. 2019
  • My husband had died a year earlier and I was used to being examined for symptoms, as if widowhood might be catching.
    — Kathryn Davis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • The four mothers met years ago and have maintained a close bond through the usual challenges of infidelity, illness, divorce and widowhood.
    — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • How unexpectedly fortunate for you, that widowhood has proved such a social triumph.
    — Daniel M. Lavery, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2021
  • His producer eventually introduced him to Lustig, and to his story of widowhood and grief.
    — Saul Austerlitz, New Republic, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Loretta’s widowhood is acknowledged in brief mentions, but the directors know better than to squeeze in mournful flashbacks or even spell out how the nameless man died.
    — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Facing widowhood, and the realities of aging, a handful of Brits decide to flip retirement on its head.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2018
  • The off-kilterness of Sarah’s comment, and her inability to grasp the reality of widowhood, is a shock.
    — Julia Rothchild, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Of course, that increases the likelihood of early widowhood and financial hardship.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2010
  • Margot Friedlander survived the Nazis’ labor camps in Germany, and then the pain of widowhood.
    — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • This year, Herwad became the first village in the state to prohibit widowhood rituals, followed by others.
    — Kanika Gupta, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2022
  • That determination, however, has not erased the challenges of widowhood.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
  • 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
  • Upon his release at war's end, Claypoole traveled to Philadelphia to inform the seamstress of her widowhood.
    — Tribune News Service, Arkansas Online, 4 July 2021
  • In Hogan’s novel of life during widowhood, Venetia Hargreaves searches for a new self in her 70s.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • The rules of inheritance kept women from owning property except in a few circumstances, including in widowhood.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian, 18 June 2019
  • The final section, Nell & Tig, contains four ruefully humorous stories about how Nell copes with widowhood.
    — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • And a full 80%, or about 34 million senior households, would be unable to weather a major shock such as widowhood, serious illness, or the need for long-term care.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As life expectancy rises, more retirees face the higher risk of poverty associated with declining resources and widowhood.
    — Alicia H. Munnell, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018

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