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Example sentences for "widowed"

Lexicographically close words:
widish; widna; widout; widow; widowe; widower; widowers; widowhood; widows; width
  1. In pity, Lord, look down On the blank widowed plains which he hath made his own By right of solitude.

  2. At this period women widowed by the fortune of war or forced by the absence of all the male members of the family on the field, were often found in business.

  3. He compared it to a widowed mother who dies, and also to a mother who does not die, but continues young, lovely, and alert, even to the last.

  4. He was but nineteen years of age, and the only son of a widowed mother.

  5. I can distress a widowed mother and six fatherless children, and get for you six hundred dollars, to which, for all I can see, she has as good a right as you have.

  6. I met Tommy on my way home and told him that he must make haste and grow big that he might go to sea and fill his pockets with pearls and diamonds for his widowed mother.

  7. Two years later by dint of careful inquiry she discovered that the stern-faced woman who had abandoned her in the Lahore market was her uncle's wife, now widowed and in poverty; and to her she of her bounty gave a pension.

  8. In many cases the mother of the house or the sister, if old, widowed and in the words of the Koran "despairing of a marriage," performs the business of shopping and proves herself no less adept than her kinsman at driving a bargain.

  9. In another case a widowed mother came to one of my meetings, and was profoundly alarmed at what I said about the dangers of our schoolboys.

  10. Antonia loved to sit at Madame du Deffant's feet in the wintry dusk, they two alone in the modest salon which the widowed marquise occupied in the convent of St. Joseph, having given up her hotel soon after her husband's death.

  11. Miss Kate Shelly, with her widowed mother and little sisters and brother, lives in a humble home on the hill-side, in a rugged country skirting the Des Moines River.

  12. It is pining, grief, and the dead weight of loss that has ailed her being childless and widowed at once.

  13. In the smiles of the conquest so lately achieved, Joyful be his bride, "widowed modesty" relieved.

  14. On asking for his widowed acquaintance he was informed that she was ill, seriously, though not dangerously.

  15. The writer officiated at his funeral from his widowed mother's house, who was thus robbed of her only son and support in old age.

  16. In the interests of her son, the widowed duchess applied to the Governor of Valencia in the following September for the boy's investiture in the rights of his deceased father.

  17. And when the robins nest again," sighed a pensive, widowed Mrs. Lane, who taught the little girls.

  18. Ask that widowed mother who did her the greatest evil: the man who only killed her drunken husband, or the man who made a drunkard of her only son?

  19. Willie Thornbridge was just eighteen, the only comfort and support of his widowed mother.

  20. Dead without a moment's preparation, without one word of endearment or farewell to his lonely and widowed mother.

  21. The vile oppressor who hath made The widowed mother mourn, Though worthless, soulless he may stand, I cannot, dare not scorn.

  22. Though faint and sick, and worn away With poverty and woe, My widowed feet are doomed to stray 'Mid thorny paths below.

  23. A few months after the usual period of mourning had passed, the widowed husband took unto himself a second wife.

  24. How unjustly did I complain of being stript of every comfort, when still I hear that he is happy and insensible of our afflictions; still kept in reserve to support his widowed mother, and to protect his brothers and sisters.

  25. Heaven be his guard, and keep my boy thus happy to be the supporter of his widowed mother, and the father of these two babes, which is all the patrimony I can now bequeath him.

  26. When she saw her children possessed of the blessing which had been denied to her in her early days, she was tempted to look back on the widowed restricted household in Kensington Palace as on a somewhat chill and grey environment.

  27. In later years the widowed Queen has dwelt little at Buckingham Palace, coming rarely except for the Drawing-rooms, which inaugurate the season and lend the proper stamp to the gilded youth of the kingdom.

  28. No contemporary writer gives the slightest indication of any suspicion of the possible truth of this audacious inculpation of the widowed princess having existed at the time.

  29. To say that my brother and myself were the only consolation which my poor father now possessed, were merely to tell the common tale of parental love in the widowed breast.

  30. I have no friends to protect me: I am widowed and childless.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.