Widowed Sentence Examples

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  • Cynthia's widowed mother was a librarian in a small Indiana town.

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  • Soon after, she became widowed after losing her husband suddenly.

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  • Alford's early years were passed with his widowed father, who was curate of Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire.

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  • By contrast, the widowed countess Isabel lacked her late husband's political clout.

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  • It is Diamond Jubilee Year, and the Duchess of Albany, Queen Victoria's widowed daughter-in-law, is to perform the opening ceremony.

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  • The greater part of that winter he spent at Abury Hatch, in Epping Forest, with his widowed daughter, Constance Alleyn, and was too ill to preach before the king at Christmas.

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  • Our sympathies are quickened and go out to her sorrowing relatives and especially to her husband and widowed mother.

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  • After her mother was widowed a second time, Annie was placed in a county poor farm and endured mental and physical abuse.

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  • They may have recently been divorced or widowed, which has left them lonely.

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  • The employment of children under fourteen years of age in any factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, store, business office, telegraph or telephone office, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, club, theatre, bootblack stand, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages is forbidden, except that a child between twelve and fourteen years of age may with the permission of the judge of the juvenile court be employed at an occupation not dangerous or injurious to his health or morals if necessary for his support or for the assistance of a disabled, ill or invalid parent, a younger brother or sister, or a widowed mother.

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  • Jacob is a widowed father with two children who places an advertisement for a wife and mother.

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  • Widowed persons need to know the date and city in which they were widowed.

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  • Those who are widowed or divorced may miss the company of their former partners, however, and long to connect with another in the same way.

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  • Blended family-A family formed by the remarriage of a divorced or widowed parent.

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  • Single-parent families are families with children under age 18 headed by a parent who is widowed or divorced and not remarried, or by a parent who has never married.

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  • Children who are living with a widowed mother will have a home life that is different from children with divorced parents or those whose parents were never married.

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  • These may be siblings of the couple, or in some cases, a widowed parent who is remarrying.

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  • Marital - Do you want to find a date who has never been married, or are you open to divorced, widowed, or separated companions?

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  • And it doesn't matter how you became a single parent-you can be separated, divorced, widowed or never married.

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  • I have been talking on the phone with a wonderful senior man (I am a senior widowed woman) who lives 300 miles away that I met through a matched dating service.

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  • Some people become single parents due to divorce or because they are widowed.

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  • A radio show brings a widowed man and woman on opposite sides of the country together when the man's adolescent son encourages him to go on the air.

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  • Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - A widowed father (Tom Hanks) speaks on a radio show about how much his misses his wife and picks up the interest of a young woman (Meg Ryan).

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  • The target on this episode refers to himself as a "cougar hunter" and believes he is competing on a dating show for the chance to date a recently widowed older woman.

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  • A 1947 movie, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, featured the ghost of a sea captain, played by the dashing Rex Harrison, as a romantic figure to the widowed Mrs. Muir, played by Gene Tierney.

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  • Keldar widowed Ishkar who later became advisor to the Grand Nagus, the leader of the Ferengi world.

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  • Instead, they literally forced her to wed Jerome Shipton, a widowed family friend twelve years her senior.

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  • Courting a widow was one thing, but harboring a nagging feeling she might not be widowed was quite another matter.

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  • About 1180 Amalric was constable of the kingdom of Jerusalem; and he is said to have brought his handsome brother Guy to the notice of Sibylla, the widowed heiress of the kingdom.

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  • Still worse was the frequent remarriage of widowed princesses and heiresses.

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  • His son, Humphrey VIII., who succeeded him in the same year, was allowed to marry one of the king's daughters, Eleanor, the widowed countess of Holland (1302).

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  • He lost his father at an early age and his widowed mother was supported by the charity of the Dominicans.

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  • The death of his widowed mother in 1850 left him almost without resources, with a family of younger brothers and sisters dependent upon him.

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  • On the outward journey he wintered in Sicily, where he employed himself in quarrelling with Philip and in exacting satisfaction from the usurper Tancred for the dower of his widowed sister, Queen Joanna, and for his own share in the inheritance of William the Good.

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  • After attending school at Northwich, he began to help his widowed mother on the farm, but to escape from that uncongenial occupation he persuaded her in 1811 to remove to Manchester and start a pawnbroking business.

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  • By acts of 1903 child labour under 12 years is forbidden in any factory unless for support of "a widowed mother or aged or disabled father," or unless the child is an indigent orphan; "no child under the age of ten years shall be so employed under any circumstances."

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  • As the result of the general campaign against child labour, an act was passed in 1906 providing that no child under 10 shall be employed or allowed to labour in or about any factory, under any circumstances; after the 1st of January 1907 no child under 12 shall be so employed, unless an orphan with no other means of support, or unless a widowed mother or disabled or aged father is dependent on the child's labour, in which case a certificate to the facts, holding good for one year only, is required; after the 1st of January 1908 no child under 14 shall be employed in a factory between the hours of 7 P.M.

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  • It is said that he discovered the love intrigue between Antonio Perez and the widowed princess of Eboli, Ana Mendoza de la Cerda.

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  • His friend and master, after about two years' tenure of the earldom of Devonshire, died of the plague in June 1628, and the affairs of the family were so disordered financially that the widowed countess was left with the task of righting them in the boyhood of the third earl.

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  • He was heir to the extensive Austrian lands, and as the widowed husband of Charles the Bolds daughtel Max!miliani.

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  • Lucy Larcom,' born in Beverly, came to Lowell in 1835, where her widowed mother kept a " corporation " boarding-house, and where she became a " doffer," changing bobbins in the mills.

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  • When he reached his native land, the widowed queen offered him the kingdom, her son Heardred being too young to rule.

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  • On the approach of Antigonus he retired into winter quarters near Heraclea, marrying its widowed queen Amastris, a Persian princess.

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  • She is personified as a widowed princess, bereaved and desolate, sitting amid the ruins of her former joys, and brooding over her calamities.

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  • The bishops were almost universally banished, and the congregations were forbidden to elect their successors, so that the greater part of the churches of Africa remained "widowed" for a whole generation.

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  • Having returned to France from Switzerland, she lived first at her country house near Marly and then in Paris, where she died at the age of eighty-seven, in 1842, having been widowed for twenty-nine years.

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  • Schloss Friedrichshof, at the foot of the Feldberg and Altkonig, immediately north of Kronberg, was built in 1889-97 by the widowed empress Frederick, and is the place where she died in 1901.

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  • This authority of Holland was, however, more than counterbalanced about a month later, leaving the widowed Jacqueline at 17 years of age face to face with a difficult situation.

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  • When he did in some measure find himself again, r, he gave to the world his charming Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), and in 1865 his Household Poems. Among the latter is a poem entitled "The Children's Hour," which affords a glance into the home life of the widowed poet, who had been left with five children - two sons, Ernest and Charles, and three daughters, "Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair."

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  • He was in that year summoned to Flanders by Margaret, the widowed duchess of Burgundy, and sister of Edward IV., who was the main support of the Yorkist exiles, and who was the enemy of Henry VII.

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  • There are some particularly sad circumstances in connection with the accident, one of the victims being the sole support of his widowed mother.

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  • A widowed noblewoman who founded the convent of Thorn on the Marne in France.

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  • A widowed person may be able to claim on the record of a spouse or deceased spouse.

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  • This practice assumes that no ardent male suitor could gain access to the widowed queen.

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  • The well-known custom which gives the nearest heir of the dead a right to inherit the widow is naturally distinct from the levirate, where it is the brother's duty to marry his widowed sister-in-law if childless, and where the eldest son succeeds to the name and inheritance of the deceased.

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  • Many seniors are intimidated to enter the world of dating whether they are recently divorced, widowed or never found that special someone.

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  • The buildings of the society include a church, a school and houses for the brethren, the sisters and the widowed of both sexes, while it possesses an ethnographical museum and other collections of interest.

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  • The widowed duchess of Kent was now a woman of thirty-four, handsome,, homely, a German at heart, and with little liking for English ways.

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  • There could be no doubt that under the constitution of 1876 the widowed queen was entitled to the regency.

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  • Cynthia's mother, a widowed librarian, telephoned from Indiana frequently.

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