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Example sentences for "widower"

Lexicographically close words:
widna; widout; widow; widowe; widowed; widowers; widowhood; widows; width; widths
  1. Violette was a widower now, and being busy all day was very much embarrassed with the care of his little son.

  2. When he became a widower he gave himself up to his liaisons in perfect security, but without scandal, of course, as to his passion for servants.

  3. But how could he, where the widower himself so decidedly ignored the subject of his own sorrow?

  4. What need had the lonely widower of that roomy mansion, with its long picture-gallery and snug suites of apartments, each of them large enough to accommodate a small family?

  5. The time had come for the widower to feel relief in speaking of the lost one; and from that hour Mrs. Alexander became a favourite with her uncle.

  6. Ye bachelor and ye widower are treated in ye big booke.

  7. But ye widower is like ye familiar fireplace.

  8. When they both have children, the widower must make a solemn promise to his castemen that he will treat and support the children by both marriages impartially.

  9. A man who is celebrating his wife's death-rites then has his waist-thread cut by another widower while bathing.

  10. The New England widower was speaking to a friend confidentially a week after the burial of his deceased helpmate.

  11. The next day, a friend who had been at the wake encountered the widower on the street and spoke sympathetically of the great woe displayed by the man.

  12. Crushed and mystified, the widower whispered to those interested with himself in his wife's estate; and so, before the reading of the will, there slowly grew a very deep suspicion and hearty hatred of Clement Hicks.

  13. Whenever he found a man who was a widower he wanted to kill him.

  14. Joe is a widower with two boys, a gentle voice, a gentle, wondering mind, and a remarkable wart in the very center of his left palm.

  15. Doc says that if he can coax some man to get Dolly Beatty good woolen stockings and keep her from wearing those transparent things this winter he'll be almost happy; says if Dolly should marry that widower he'll talk to him.

  16. He was a widower when he came, and a widower he remained, despite the fact that gossip regularly married him to this, that, or the other one, every year of his sojourn.

  17. Having no children of her own, Mrs. Wilson gave her devoted affection to the children and grandchildren of her husband, who was a widower at the time of their marriage.

  18. The two men looked into each other's eyes--the widower speechless with astonishment; the jeweler scenting a thief.

  19. The widower opened his eyes wide and remained gaping, not comprehending the merchant's meaning.

  20. When quite a young bird, and before my schooling began, I was caught in the land of Malaya, and was sold to a very rich merchant called Sagardati, a widower with one daughter, the lady Jayashri.

  21. Sita perished upon the spot, and the widower remained inconsolable--for a time.

  22. Ribaumont had crossed her path, was about the same time left a widower with one son and daughter, and as soon as a suitable interval had passed, she became a far happier wife than she had been in either the Baron's gay or grave days.

  23. The widower will take his revenge, and get Yoneh a bad name among the householders: "He has only to snap his fingers and there's an end of me!

  24. Mr. Fontaine, who had been a widower for ten years, habitually gave great latitude to Claude, his only son, of whom he was genuinely fond.

  25. He told her he was an Alsatian, a widower with one child of about fourteen years.

  26. One of the Payne girls—Sophia, the youngest—is going to marry a widower with eight children—all at home.

  27. But one sorrowing widower amended it, according to his wife's direction, so that it bore a new and significant meaning.

  28. Jacob was tall and snuff-colored, a widower of three years' standing.

  29. Don’t you think your widower would appreciate my free services?

  30. Like many others in the world, there was a widower who had three daughters.

  31. It doesn't make you seem quite so alarmingly innocent and remote for a widower to offer marriage to.

  32. Master John Crackstone, being (apparently) a widower with a son, a child well grown, was evidently about thirty five years old when he embarked for New England.

  33. He was perhaps again a widower when he came over, as no mention is made of his having wife or family.

  34. Job had done conspicuous duty in Mrs. Baxter's funeral procession, in fact, he had helped to bear the disconsolate widower and his children to her grave.

  35. Mr. Baxter was a widower of fifty, whose wife had recently died, leaving him with six children under ten years old.


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