How To Use Widower In A Sentence
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The ci-devant banker, then a widower with an only daughter, Esther, had journeyed to England.
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Underwood - a superannuated widower - has two daughters.
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I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Du'in 'the month thet he's showed signs o' keepin 'comp'ny with me - which he has acchilly asked me to marry him - he' ain't said the first word sech ez you'd expect of a co'tin 'widower, exceptin' one.
In Simpkinsville : character tales,
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Mr Murphy said that all widows and widowers who were overtaxed should be repaid this money with interest to compensate them for the loss of purchasing power.
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Family doctor and friend, Good Old George has forsworn his practice due to retirement, is a widower and now lives in bucolic bliss in the country.
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Cecil Maiden, third Earl of Heathermere, was a widower with three sons, by name Reginald, Bertie, and Osmund.
The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
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He remarried, became a widower, and remarried again.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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Married to a widower with three children, her position is not much better than it was 16 years ago.
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I married my late husband when he was a widower after he retired and I accept that as a result I am not entitled to any pension from him.
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Think about what the parents, widows, widowers, and children of dead service men and women are thinking and feeling as these ‘intelligence failures’ are coming to light.
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Having been a widower for many years, he finally decided to marry again.
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In a sense, the hardliners in the military and intelligence services are no different from a widow or widower who cannot accept the death of a spouse.
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The king was a widower, his wife having died giving birth to his daughter.
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‘I am just a widower looking after his three children; a poor labourer who gets by picking olives and minding the vegetable patch,’ he told reporters.
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In the past they've tried to engineer a meeting with a local widower who lost his wife and children in a car accident.
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The story, that of a widower and a widow connecting with the help of their handyman, is pretty formulaic, and the characters are extremely two-dimensional, but I really liked the descriptions of the houses and the main character’s yacht.
Miracle
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Rural England circa 1950 is the setting for the lighter-toned "A Red Herring Without Mustard" Delacorte, 399 pages, $23 , the third mystery by Alan Bradley to be narrated by 11-year-old Flavia de Luce: chemistry prodigy, amateur detective and mischievous bane of her two elder sisters and their distracted, upper-class, philatelic, cash-strapped widower-father.
Murder by the Numbers
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News, Gary Saton, 36, the widower who "safe havened 9 of his 10 children (the oldest is a legal adult) at Creighton University Medical Center last September, went to court Monday (March 9) to formally terminate his parental rights.
The Daily Bastardette
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‘I am just a widower looking after his three children; a poor labourer who gets by picking olives and minding the vegetable patch,’ he told reporters.
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Meanwhile, his widower father had remarried.
Times, Sunday Times
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The elderly widower was so smitten that before they reached journey's end he proposed to her -- and was refused.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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The long widowerhood of Kaspar contributed to this, but it went deeper, had persisted far longer.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The widower is at liberty when his wife dies; but he mourns for her in the same way, by cutting his hair off.
Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
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He remarried, became a widower, and remarried again.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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The widow or widower is released from the marriage contract by death ( 'til death do us part), but may continue to have an emotional connection to the deceased.
The Reality of Family
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A widower, he had five children, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Mayor of Arthur Avenue
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The widower denied the charge - forcing his victim to relive her ordeal before a jury.
The Sun
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It's the story of a lonely middle-aged widower who contrives to find a new love by staging phony auditions for a TV show, then dating the most appealing actress.
Extremes on Screen
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Where the widows or widowers have died there may be other surviving family, like grandchildren.
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Her widower father blames Truly for killing his wife; to some degree her older sister pixyish Serena Jane does too.
Little Giant of Aberdeen County-Tiffany Baker « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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A widower, he wanted my help in getting entry clearance for his second wife, from Pakistan.
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I do not feel that this is a proper way to conduct business with an elderly and vulnerable widower.
Times, Sunday Times
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The judge was the man for whom she had clerked, a widower with a heavy Russian accent and a love of the absurd.
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Foster carers do not need any special qualification - young couples, single people, widows and widowers and retired couples can apply.
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It is also asking for pensions for part-time firefighters, who are currently excluded, and wants normal widows and widower benefits made available to unmarried partners.
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When Ireland reviewed his credentials and saw he was a priest of the Byzantine church and a widower, Ireland refused to grant him faculties or permission to officiate.
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He is, after all, a navy veteran who whistles for his children, a widower withdrawn so deeply into mourning that he flees from the memories that possess his home.
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Northern Rivers veterans and their partners, widows and widowers and children will be better off following the latest increases in veterans' pensions and allowances.
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There is no agreement about the town he came from, his age at the time of the apparitions, whether he was married or a widower, or whether he and his wife had children or lived in a celibate marriage.
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A widower, whose wife died from leukaemia last year, is appealing to people to join the bone marrow register on her birthday.
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The widower denied the charge - forcing his victim to relive her ordeal before a jury.
The Sun
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We quite often have people in their late 60s and early 70s who sell their home - and married couples; not just widows or widowers - who decide that the time has come for them to move on.
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Since widowers have higher death rates than married people, 22 23 controlling for widowhood would be expected to reduce the relative risks in this and other studies of smoking in spouses.
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Watching the race will be a young widower whose wife died of cervical cancer in March.
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There's a string of more complicated provisions that affect, for example, widows, widowers and divorcees.
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Charlie was an orphan and had been raised by an old widower man, Mr Smith, who many respected, but everyone thought was slightly mad.
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In the meantime, Cathy finds solace with her gardener, a widower with a young daughter.
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Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
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On Thursday evening last, while a widower attended his wife's funeral, his home in Foxpoint in Barnatra was burgled and a substantial amount of cash taken.
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The young lady who had so high a spirit as to have at times awakened somewhat of terror in those who were her adversaries; the young lady who had made such a fine show in male attire, and of whom it had been said that she could outleap, outfence, and outswear any man her size, had made a fine match indeed, marrying an elderly nobleman and widower, who for years had lived the life of a recluse, at last becoming hopelessly enamoured of one who might well be his youngest child.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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Their first case, a home invasion rape-murder that uncovers a series of pattern crimes with an unlikely prime suspect, features a strong guest performance by White Collar's Tim DeKay as a grieving widower but otherwise seems indistinguishable from a sordid Special Victims Unit potboiler.
Roush Review: A LOLA Makeover
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So, although Charles is, in the eyes of the CofE, a widower, Camilla is a divorcée, and therefore cannot be married in a Church.
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And I met the man playing Baron Von Trapp, the gruff and grumpy Naval officer widower whose heart she melts.
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Ramsey Ryker, a retired widower, is having nightmares and seeing a ghost in "Horrible Imaginings".
REVIEW: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories edited by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan
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There's a string of more complicated provisions that affect, for example, widows, widowers and divorcees.
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In a sense, the hardliners in the military and intelligence services are no different from a widow or widower who cannot accept the death of a spouse.
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An overweight widower in declining health, he lives alone, walks with a cane, treats himself to good cigars and talks to photographs of his dead wife.
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A quarter of lone fathers are over 50, reflecting their greater likelihood of being widowers.
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War widows and widowers will receive more generous payouts, and rights are to be extended to same-sex partners, under the biggest shake-up of armed forces pensions since the 1890s.
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The apocryphal gospels uniformly insisted that Joseph was an old widower who was not Mary's husband, but her ‘guardian.’
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If we had known that I don't suppose we would have called him, for a widower is even worse in a congregation than a single man.
Rainbow Valley
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So she is married off as the second wife of an elderly widower in a neighbouring village.
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49 I am not aware that this vivisepulture of the widower is the custom of any race, but the fable would be readily suggested by the Sati (Suttee) - rite of the Hindus.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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When somebody dies without a will, for example, a deed of variation may ensure a widow or widower can stay in their home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hosken subsequently, as Charles Granville, litterateur and widower, married Mrs. Caroline Leontine Fawcett at Portobello near Edinburgh.
Archive 2009-02-01
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She was also criticised for failing to caution an elderly widower whose cat was suffering from emphysema.
Times, Sunday Times
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Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
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The elderly widower keeps the food on the boil all afternoon long, stirring it now and then.
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Sherston was a widower, though he never used the word, even in his innermost heart, for to him the term connoted something slightly absurd, and he was sensitive to ridicule.
Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
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Also stolen were a grandfather clock, which had been in the widower's family since the 19th Century, an antique mirror and a silver canteen of cutlery.
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Back in September I wrote about Al, a lonely widower sitting on his front porch.
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Widows and widowers in South China's Guangdong Province need not provide former marriage certificates when asking for a remarriage registration, according to the Guangzhou Daily.
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Often a widower has to prove that he was dependent on his wife before he can receive benefit.
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Even if St. Joseph was an older widower, which is in doubt, his marriage to the Blessed Virgin, who at fourteen was of marriagable age, was not contrary to either Natural Law or the civil law of his country.
Jon Stewart vs. Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage
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The widower also flew in a glider, a microlight, a jet and a balloon.
The Sun
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The comedy portrays the changing relationship between Henry Horatio Hobson, a widower and boot-shop proprietor, and his three daughters who have begun showing ‘a general increase of uppishness’.
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Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired.
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Benefit chiefs today apologised to a widower after claiming his wife was still living with him - five years after her death.
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Sixty Million Trillion Combinations SINCE IT WAS Thomas Trumbull who was going to act as host for the Black Widowers that month, he did not, as was his wont, arrive at the last minute, gasping for his preprandial drink.
Banquets of the Black Widowers
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Generally speaking, a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period.
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Similarly, it takes courage for an elderly widow and an elderly widower to get married.
Christianity Today
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The story sounds familiar enough, widower is framed by killer, widower goes on the run.
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Since then, hundreds of would-be widows and widowers have applied for what's billed as ‘post-mortem matrimony.’
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Among them are widows and widowers, heartfree spinsters and pining bachelors.
The Bird Study Book
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During the next two years, approximately 40 club members, including widows, widowers, divorcees and unmarried men and women, continued to push for change.
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This is the obverse of the widower's more particularized loneliness, which is the 'absence of a very specific someone'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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While you might expect a decree of divorce to remove your entitlement to claim any widow's or widower's pension entitlements, this is not the case.
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The milkman was a widower, looking out for a wife, and Marianne, as she said, could skim cream with anybody; so it was only natural that they should have a great deal to say to each other, and that measuring the milk at that particular gate should be a slow business.
Nine Little Goslings
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Many of the residents told to replace their sewers are retired, widows and widowers and single parents who are on a fixed income, and the cost of this replacement is a financial burden.
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Widows, bereft parents, and odd widower - you could always count on seeing a few of them sitting by a grave.
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This play continues on and takes us through the first stage of George's life as a widower.
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She reported three horses, 48 head of cattle, 63 sheep, and an exceptional crop of 45 muid of wheat produced from three muid sown. 43 Widower Scholtz lived with his only surviving son and kept two horses, 6 head of cattle, and 50 sheep. 44 In combining their resources, Antoinetta and Joachim had a large household and reasonable, but not exceptional, resources.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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Royce alleged that since the widower is the slayer of Juliana M.
In the Still of the Night
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She spoke to him of his luckless courtship of Widow Denison (a most unpleasant topic), thus giving a clue to the whole situation, in showing that Madam Winthrop resented his desertion of her in his first widowerhood, and like Falstaff, would not "undergo a sneap without reply.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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•Ugly Betty (ABC, tonight, 8 ET/PT) returns with a two-hour re-introduction that finds Betty adjusting to her new job, Daniel adjusting to being a widower, and Justin adjusting to high school.
Critic's Corner Weekend
