Mrs. Carter became a widow when her husband was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan.

There is this widow in our neighborhood whose husband died over twenty years ago, and even now she has yet to remarry.

A wife will become a widow the moment her husband dies, but she can remarry to erase that particular title if she so desires.

Mrs. Irene became a widow over a year ago, but she’s about to get married again so she won’t be a widow for long.

You do not become a widow if you divorce your husband, only if they are forcefully and unwillingly separated from them by death.