Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez. From Wordnik.com. [Starting from Scratch] Reference
For years I called my widowed father every Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [Aspects of Silence] Reference
The wife who becomes widowed is a human being, entitled to live in a happy family, Arab or Israeli. From Wordnik.com. [Anwar Al-Sadat - Nobel Lecture] Reference
No longer solely reserved for the single, "lonely" now labels the widowed, divorced and even the married. From Wordnik.com. [S. Isabelle Harounian: The Case For Loneliness] Reference
At first while the world called her widowed she sat with her unwidowed heart waiting for him in the old room, in the old way. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
Earlier this year, Srivastava formed the first national forum for single women where single is defined as widowed, deserted and abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
There are at present two hundred "widowed" parishes in the Diocese of. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
The 'widowed' mother underwent frequent conversion; the children enjoyed the benefit of as frequent baptism. From Wordnik.com. [Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers] Reference
Tobey Maguire, this flick focuses on a POW (Maguire) who comes home to find his ex-con brother shacked up with his '' widowed '' wife. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"widowed," those who had experienced the death of a spouse. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
( "widowed" here being used in the old tender sense of bereaved). From Wordnik.com. [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference
Officials say Gul had been widowed for four years. From Wordnik.com. [Taliban Execute Pregnant Woman] Reference
There was no mention of widowed parents with young children. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Changing Families, Provocative Voices] Reference
His mother, Mary Bell, was widowed when Washington was eleven. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORY: 1776--WASHINGTON'S WAR] Reference
And now at 29, a divorced, widowed and then-married film star. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Byrne: A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberg] Reference
Home buying also jumped among the never-married, widowed or divorced. From Wordnik.com. [Home Prices Bounce Back] Reference
The 48-year-old seamstress was newly widowed-her husband died suddenly a year earlier. From Wordnik.com. [A Human Horror Story] Reference
Tommy is another friend and widowed mother who lost her home to the banks this past year. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Stein: Shock and Shame] Reference
Koenig recalls that one little boy stood at the Grand Canyon with his newly widowed grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Travels With Grandpa] Reference
"Pretty consistently," she says, "the worst off are the currently widowed, divorced, or separated.". From Wordnik.com. [Another Reason to Stay Married] Reference
Adult sons and daughters, siblings and friends need to pay special attention to a newly widowed parent. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Of A Spouse] Reference
(Of those, 16.6 percent were divorced, 2.9 percent were widowed and 9.1 percent had never been married.). From Wordnik.com. [Sex & Love: The New World] Reference
She boarded, and, with Ethel Kennedy and Coretta King, completed a trinity of women widowed by assassins. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
But, he found that widowers who remarried enjoyed the same lower mortality rate as men who'd never been widowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Of A Spouse] Reference
Women have too often been silent victims in the struggle, either widowed by the bloodshed or targeted themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Fruits Of War] Reference
My mother was divorced, my grandmother was recently widowed and I was three weeks shy of becoming an unwed mother. From Wordnik.com. [Single Motherhood Is A Joy, Not A Disaster] Reference
He was a widowed father of nine and I the divorced mother of four when we met at Parents Without Partners 16 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Relatively Speaking] Reference
A major problem with earlier studies of single people is that they are often lumped in with the widowed or the divorced. From Wordnik.com. [Single and Loving It, Even During the Holidays] Reference
Van Goethem was the middle of three daughters of a widowed washerwoman who lived behind the then new Garnier opera house. From Wordnik.com. [A New Life For Degas's Young Dancer] Reference
Now, a small minority (11 percent) has five or more, and 26 percent are singles -- the unmarried, the divorced, the widowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit Of America] Reference
Almost 25 years earlier, the book recounts, the recently widowed Thurmond invited the teenage Lynda Bird to go bike-riding with him. From Wordnik.com. [Lbj Said No] Reference
Lucas says other research shows that widowed people generally fare better, since they eventually adapt to life without their spouses. From Wordnik.com. [Single and Loving It, Even During the Holidays] Reference
Newly widowed in my 50s, I was plunged into a world I didn't recognize, one in which some people fell in and out of love sequentially. From Wordnik.com. [It’s Not About the Flatware] Reference
Puppy love is represented by 11-year-old Sam (Thomas Sangster), who is coached in courtship by his recently widowed father (Liam Neeson). From Wordnik.com. [Playing To The Crowd] Reference
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