7 sentences with “widow”

The funeral procession moved slowly through the cobblestone streets, accompanied by the inconsolable weeping of the widow and the sepulchral silence of the attendees.

The widow will stop crying when she no longer needs to cry.

North has written that he attended Casey's funeral "at the suggestion" of his widow, Sophia.

Muhammad grew up as a merchant, marrying a wealthy and intelligent widow named Khadija (who was originally his employer) and travelling with caravans.

Even in the case of widows, Greek tradition held that the husband's will should dictate who his widow married, almost always to another male member of his family, in order to keep the family estate intact.

Henry VIII (r. 1509 - 1547) had received a special dispensation from the papacy to marry his brother's widow (a practice forbidden in the Old Testament of the Bible), Catherine of Aragon, aunt of Charles V and therefore a member of the most powerful royal line in Europe. Catherine, however, was only able to give Henry one daughter, Mary, and did not have a son.

Joan Bugas, the widow of John Bugas, a man who became Henry II's closest confidant within the firm, recalls those nights in the 1970s when her husband and Henry II would meet until the wee hours of the morning to reminisce about the old days and the battles with Harry Bennett: two comrades in arms who in retrospect, more than a quarter of a century later, relived the excitement, the risk, the danger.