Sentence example with the word 'widowhood'

widowhood

Definition n. the time of a woman's life when she is a widow

Last update: August 20, 2015


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To prevent brothers-in-law from extorting money from a widow as a price for releasing her from perpetual widowhood, Jewish law obliges all brothers at the time of a marriage to sign a document pledging themselves to submit to halisah without payment.   [Please select]

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Widowhood not the thing since the old queen died.   [Please select]

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Dick loved his beautiful young mother devoutly, and her widowhood had bound them all the more closely together.   [Please select]

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To fall from a foot-log into clear water, signifies short widowhood terminating in an agreeable marriage.   [Please select]

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The hopeless drab of her days stretched behind her, broken only by the incident of her widowhood, and stretched ahead hopelessly.   [Please select]

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Yet, while before the monarch's throne These men contending stood, A woman crossed the floor, who wore The weeds of widowhood.   [Please select]

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A bride of two months sat on the floor and moaned her widowhood.   [Please select]

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Some were to eke out a life of widowhood in poverty.   [Please select]

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My sister is in the first year of her widowhood and very delicate.   [Please select]

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In 1561, less than a year after her widowhood, Mary set sail for Scotland, never to return.   [Please select]

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She wrote of this in her correspondence: I had not the patience to wait till widowhood.   [Please select]

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