False widows are often mistaken for their more dangerous relatives, but they rarely bite humans.

At midnight, the widows bewitched gathered around the fire and chanted for the lost.

At the seaside festival, the merry widows danced around the bonfire, laughing like old friends.

The club organized a weekend retreat for the golf widows, offering spa treatments and book clubs while their husbands played on the course.

After the executions, the hempen widows met by the river to share news and consolation.

She gently folded the delicate widow's lawn into the drawer beside the lace handkerchiefs.

The ship's muster listed an extra name, the widow's man, whose pay and allowances were quietly diverted to support the widows of lost sailors.

Reports said that widow-hunters had been targeting elderly women in the coastal villages.

The town warned newcomers to beware of the widow-hunter who circled every estate after the funeral.

By the terms of the will, the widow was granted a widow's bench, an additional share of her husband's estate beyond her jointure.