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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mr Wright, a widower with one son and two grandchildren, made his first parachute jump yesterday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fat Vince is a widower too.
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Five years a widower , and no interest in anybody that we can see.
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For ten, eleven years he was a widower with every opportunity to marry and beget a son.
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Gedamke was a widower , and he may very well have been too bound up with his teaching and with his students.
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He befriends Rabbi Hirsch, a sad-eyed widower from Prague, becoming his Shabbos goy.
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Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary.
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The idea that most singles are inherently unmarriageable and the divorced unstable fails to explain the same pattern of afflictions among widowers.
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The king had been many years a widower .