Sentence examples for widowed from inspiring English sources

Graça Machel, in mourning black and now twice widowed, reportedly sobbed at the sight of Mandela in the casket.

The marriage rate is calculated by the number of marriages per head of unmarried (single, divorced or widowed) population.

Christine Proulx, author of a study on long-term relationships published last year in the Journal of Family Psychology, found that people who have happy marriages are more likely to rate their health as better as they get older than those who are single, widowed or divorced.

Suan lives with her mother, who is widowed and ill and too poor to send her children to school; she relies upon Suan's earnings to feed Suan and her four younger children.

The widowed Mrs Johnson receives a note from her teenage daughter's school PTA, which tells her off for her allegedly scandalous behaviour.

She was widowed a few months later during the civil war with Pancho Villa: then dumped another lover to become the mistress of Jose Vasconcelos, a Mexican intellectual and failed presidential candidate who nicknamed her a "tropical Scheherazade".

In Hare's play, Tom, a whizzy, newly widowed restaurateur, pitches up at the flat of his younger ex-lover Kyra Hollis – who will be played by Mulligan – with a view to rekindling a relationship.

Some attention has been drawn to the women whose husbands were in the forces with many being widowed and to the nurses who cared for wounded and dying soldiers.

Divorced or widowed adults are about as likely to remarry today 57% have done so as they were in the 1960s.

A shy, smitten turkey farmer widowed by a car bomb falls into her trap, losing £2,000.

Since being widowed in 2010, Ms Fernández has sidelined many of her husband's allies, relying instead on a group of youngish leftist activists led by her son, Máximo.This year's cash crunch has brought conflict with the Peronist machine.