How to Use "widowhood" with Example Sentences

1. Her mother was living in deep retirement , wallowing in widowhood .

2. A spouse dies , then soon , another : the widowhood effect

3. Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age .

4. That didn 't mean that they didn 't still miss their spouses , but that they had returned to somewhat normal functioning , contradicting the popular maxim of widowhood that " the second year is harder than the first . "

5. Findings on the widowhood effect don 't come as news to medical professionals , who have observed similar patterns of increased mortality .