The red-collared widowbird puffed out its plumage to attract mates among the tall grasses.

After his wife's sudden death, he found himself plunged into a bleak widowery he had never imagined.

As a widowess, she learned to run the family shop with quiet determination.

Her widowish demeanor made friends tiptoe around any mention of his name.

She entered the room in a widowy black dress, and the hush that followed seemed to honor some private sorrow.

The historian studied widowerships across different cultures to understand how societies supported women who had lost their husbands.

After his wife's sudden death, he struggled with widowership while learning to live alone for the first time.

On Sundays, the widowmen from the coastal village met on the pier to comfort one another and share memories of the wives they had lost.

After thirty years of marriage, the widowman attended the funeral alone, his grief quiet and deep.