diff --git a/src/components/CommentItem.vue b/src/components/CommentItem.vue
index be0ba20..dd2fbdf 100644
--- a/src/components/CommentItem.vue
+++ b/src/components/CommentItem.vue
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ import smartquotes from 'smartquotes-ts';
 import type { HackerNewsItem } from '@/types';
 import { apiItemUrl } from '@/utils/apiUrls';
 import { absoluteTimestamp } from '@/utils/absoluteTimestamp';
+import { avoidShortWidows } from '@/utils/avoidShortWidows';
 import BaseIcon from '@/components/BaseIcon.vue';
 import CommentItem from '@/components/CommentItem.vue';
 import { useRelativeTimestamp } from '@/composables/relativeTimestamp';
@@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ domPurifyInstance.addHook('afterSanitizeElements', (node) => {
       .replace(subsequentLinePattern, '\n');
   }
 
+  node.textContent = avoidShortWidows(node.textContent);
   node.textContent = smartquotes(node.textContent);
 });
 
diff --git a/src/utils/avoidShortWidows.ts b/src/utils/avoidShortWidows.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cef1690
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/avoidShortWidows.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+export function avoidShortWidows(text: string) {
+  const words = text.split(' ');
+
+  const lastWord = words.pop();
+  if (!lastWord) return text;
+
+  return words.join(' ') + (words.length > 2 && lastWord.length <= 10 ? ' ' : ' ') + lastWord;
+}