How to Use dowager in a Sentence

dowager

noun

• The estate is owned by a wealthy dowager.
• The guests at the wedding—the dowager, the twins, a procession.
  — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2020
• Even Maggie Smith's dowager countess would have good things to say about them.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2022
• Sigourney Weaver stars as the estate’s wealthy dowager, Mrs. Haverhill.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
• Another passenger, the dowager Lady Brabourne, died the next day.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
• His dowager countess, played with the driest of wit by Maggie Smith, was unforgettable.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• The podcast, which at five years old is practically a dowager of the medium, is not interested in breaking tabloid news.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Each marathon consists of half a dozen movies with some common theme: boxing, vampires, trains, heists, noirishness, Joan Crawford in dowager-empress mode.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Who would have thought musty old Fenway Park, the 105-year-old dowager of the Back Bay, would be a battleground for technological espionage?
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• Given the simple nature of the dowager queen’s later years, the fact that her funeral was a modest event isn’t wholly surprising.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2015
• Being stubborn as a donkey and also the patron of one, like an eccentric dowager in a regency novel, primed me for what was to come: Sad-Donkey Autumn 2022.
  — Hannah Strong, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2022
• Weaver will co-star as his employer, a wealthy dowager, who demands that Edgerton’s character take on her wayward and troubled great-niece as a new apprentice.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021
• In 1943, at the opening of the Metropolitan Opera, Weegee photographed two dowagers in white furs and jewels smiling grimly at the camera, while on the darkened sideline a woman in a dirty coat and stole assesses them.
  — Sarah Boxer, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• In the last decade of her life, the empress dowager tried to polish her image by making herself more accessible, especially to Western diplomats.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2018
• After her son died in 1875, the dowager empress consolidated power by breaking with succession tradition to adopt her three-year-old nephew, who was also too young to rule.
  — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
• Its owner, by the time Caroline and Mustafa came along, was a professor of archaeology her family knew from Izmir who was looking for a buyer to take up the crumbling dowager of a property and bring it back to life.
  — Carl Swanson, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
• Until February 1952, the dowager queen outranked her granddaughter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• But her time with the dowager queen was brief: Katherine died in childbirth in September 1548, and her husband, clouded by accusations of impropriety and treasonous intentions, was executed less than a year later.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 3 July 2019
• Smith has portrayed the dowager countess, Violet Crawley, a character who has become best known for her devastating zingers and obsession with maintaining tradition at Downton.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 May 2022
• Willetta Street is an oasis populated by affluent hipsters, longtime legacy residents and the occupants of a large, pink dowager apartment building.
  — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 7 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024