wifeless
Example Sentences
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A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
In the end, Don’s left jobless and wifeless and it’s going to be fascinating to see how Matt Weiner rebuilds him.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2013
Childless, wifeless Lou is a bundle of anger and avarice, and writers Josh Heald, Sean Anders and John Morris load him up with harshly hilarious lines.
From Time ● Mar. 25, 2010
That same week the wifeless multimillionaire gallantly shouldered the responsibility for topnotch U. S. music by accepting the presidency of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, personally contributed large sums to its deflated exchequer.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he had said this, the wifeless man whistled again.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
