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Example sentences for "widow"

Lexicographically close words:
widgeon; widin; widish; widna; widout; widowe; widowed; widower; widowers; widowhood
  1. The doctor she had learned to know, was too certainly an evil as well as a mysterious man, and he had power over the widow and midwife, Mrs. Lehntman.

  2. She was fond of cats too and of horses, but best of all animals she loved the dog and best of all dogs, little Baby, the first gift from her friend, the widow Mrs. Lehntman.

  3. Not from her friend, the widow Mrs. Lehntman.

  4. The widow Mrs. Lehntman was the romance in Anna's life.

  5. All of Anna's spare hours in these early days she spent with her friend, the widow Mrs. Lehntman.

  6. The adopting of the little boy did not put an end to Anna's friendship for the widow Mrs. Lehntman.

  7. That your wife may be made a widow before the week is out, or the house burnt about our ears by these rascals and their following?

  8. Would you make her a widow before she is a wife?

  9. Since then I have been wearing blisters on my cheeks and nose, and making frequent applications with the powder rag of the literary widow and old-maid artist who room across the way.

  10. This miserable war had made one widow immediately within their own circle, Heaven grant that it might not make two.

  11. But the dead man lies in his lonely grave away in savage Kafirland, and his young widow weeps for him, and his old comrades think of him with an affectionate, but shadowed regret.

  12. The widow married the son, and the daughter married the father.

  13. What's the good of getting married to a man who may leave you a widow inside of a month?

  14. One young widow that I knew attacked hers with a fountain pen and got the better of it valiantly by writing screed after screed, not only to her relatives and friends, but even to her remotest acquaintances.

  15. The widow and orphans were deserted by the cowardice of their former friends.

  16. The arrival in the house of this genuine aunt from Axe, of this majestic and enormous widow whom even the imperial Mrs. Baines regarded with a certain awe, set a seal of ultimate solemnity on the whole event.

  17. St. Luke's Square in the parish of Bursley in the County of Stafford and at present in the occupation of Mrs. Constance Povey widow under a lease expiring in September 1889.

  18. Mr. Critchlow and the widow gazed, helplessly waiting, at the pitiable corpse, of which the salient part was the white beard.

  19. She accused him, amid sobs, of putting his cousin before his wife and son, of not caring whether or not she was left a widow as the result of this obstinacy.

  20. The assistants, too, had a special demeanour for the poor lone widow which was excessively trying to her.

  21. The spacious existence of a wealthy widow in a residential town with a low death-rate and famous scenery!

  22. She let him fall out o' bed, and ye're a widow now, missis!

  23. And He called unto Him His disciples and saith unto them, Verily, I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in than all they which have cast into the treasury.

  24. And He called unto Him His disciples, and saith unto them, Verily, I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in than all they which have cast into the treasury.

  25. When first a widow she stamped her volumes with a laurel springing from a tomb, and the motto, "Sola vivit in illo.

  26. There are about three hundred and fifty volumes in the inventory, but Moliere's widow may have omitted as valueless (it is the foible of her sex) many rusty bouquins, now worth far more than their weight in gold.

  27. Clitophon who naturally believes Leucippe dead is pursued by Melitte, a lovely, wealthy and amorous widow of Ephesus.

  28. Melitte the widow of Ephesus is the most elaborately drawn character in the romance.

  29. And, too, the Widow Keens, she's had a fall lately.

  30. There is the Widow Keens, she that was Azubah Muchmore.

  31. Paou said--"If the widow of Ching-yih goes, we must fix a time for her return.

  32. Ching's widow was clever as well as brave, and so was her lieutenant Paou.

  33. When I drew up to our old windmill, the Widow Steavens came out to meet me.

  34. The Widow Steavens rode up from her farm eight miles down the Black Hawk road.

  35. To escape from his predicament he ran away with a widow six years older than himself, who owned a half-section.

  36. He recalled the promises to the widow and the fatherless, and asked God to smooth the way before this widow and her children, and to “incline the hearts of men to deal justly with her.

  37. Before these callers were gone, the brother of the Widow Steavens, who lived on the Black Hawk road, drew up at our door, and after him came the father of the German family, our nearest neighbors on the south.

  38. Besides, the Widow Steavens is a good talker, and she has a remarkable memory.

  39. III ON the first or second day of August I got a horse and cart and set out for the high country, to visit the Widow Steavens.

  40. Why don’t you go out and see your grandfather’s tenant, the Widow Steavens?

  41. Riding into the yard, and reining up to the door of the house, I called the occupants out, who proved to be a widow lady and two daughters.

  42. Katharine Parr had been first married as a mere child to the old Lord Borough of Gainsborough, and had been left a widow before she was seventeen.

  43. NOR WIFE NOR WIDOW The history of the first two marriages of Henry VIII.

  44. For in July he married the widow of a nobleman named Latimer, and he is always wont to celebrate his nuptials by some wickedness of this kind.

  45. He wrote a Chronicle of events, in four books, from the creation of the world to the death of the emperor Theophilus (842), whose widow Theodora restored the worship of images in the same year.

  46. Under this system every person insured has a right to assistance in case of sickness, accident, or incapacity, while in case of death his widow and children receive an annuity.

  47. A poor widow had given him shelter, and in return for her kindness, what had he done?

  48. The widow of one of the sailors who had got drowned at Ustica came to beg for a pittance.

  49. His second wife was a very intelligent and agreeable widow lady of a good social position, who even after having made a considerable sacrifice of her means in order to marry him, was comfortably off.

  50. Here the widow and the fatherless cry aloud.

  51. The widow was there, the orphan, the poor, the man who had failed in life.

  52. Everything is in the future; at the end the widow Euphemia marries the Grand Turk, the only remaining sovereign.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bereave; dowager; heir; leave; orphan; successor


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    widow lady; widow woman