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How to use erstwhile in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word erstwhile? Here are some examples.

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He assuredly bumped off a formidable array of erstwhile friends and possible rivals.
Consequently, the music and grooves are the same jazzy funk that this erstwhile folksinger has been exploring over her past few albums.
Or is it more a question of a prime minister losing the trust of his people, including some his erstwhile friends and allies?
Many of the president's erstwhile critics seem willing to give him a chance.
But there's nothing like a common enemy to get erstwhile rivals to work together.
They have joined erstwhile political masters and mafia men to mulct the state.
A warmly lyrical idiom gave place to a gritty astringency that must have been very disturbing to erstwhile admirers.
This was the only way to let new trust grow across a deep trench between the erstwhile perpetrators and their victims.
Oil money has corrupted the media and a considerable segment of erstwhile critical intellectuals.
Like Sally, Atlantic City's Grace is a shrill, unstable aging beauty, grasping at her fading identity as an erstwhile big-timer's widow.
Our erstwhile ska hardliners are now essentially a four-piece, with saxist Lorraine front and centre handling vocal duty.
As this correspondent observed last week, the forests have re-grown and the erstwhile bald hills are now covered in luxurious foliage and flora.
This incents gaming at the company level, contribute invalid data for erstwhile competitors while using your real graph for search.
Thus it came to pass that one of the islands of the Archipelago of Bermuda, erstwhile the haunt of buccaneers, became the lair of another gang.
The future, as foreseen by Douglas Hurd, erstwhile Foreign Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, looks intriguing.
Surprisingly, Paul Kaye as the erstwhile burglar Mike, give a relaxed and convincing portrayal of a working class intellectual.
The wine was so good that one of my erstwhile diners had a drop too much and was sick at the table.
Daniel Okrent, the NYT's ombudsman through its crisis months departs this week, loosing a Parthian shot or two at his erstwhile employer.
The fuzzy-haired keyboard player switches to bass, the erstwhile bassist to second guitar, and it all goes horribly pear-shaped.
Even laptops and palmtops are taking over the erstwhile super computers' importance.
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He was beset on either side by the merciless fangs of his erstwhile comrades.
The glaive of Justice should descend where erstwhile it had corruptly been stayed.
The erstwhile Major had been found dead on a dark street and brought by curious and ennuied citizens to the drug store.
Mr. Hungerford and his erstwhile chum did not speak to each other at all now.
Among them I recognized with a start my erstwhile guard, Holaf, of the Zervs.
The erstwhile illuminated theatre is as dark as the Hall of eblis.
It was pitiful to see the erstwhile Whittaker majority melt away.
That erstwhile habit of Sakr-el-Bahr's was one not easy to condone.
Jenssen, streaming foul curses upon his erstwhile friend, burst into the tent.
In the great world, where great captains of industry die, all wheels under their erstwhile management are stopped for a minute.
That threat is still there, and would come no lesser disquietingly to the government as those erstwhile political players are once again in positions of power in Sindh.
He had sent the party after Abdul Kamak, and he was wroth that instead of his erstwhile lieutenant they had sent back a wounded and useless Englishman.
Interviewed by Texas Monthly in its January issue, Armey blasted his former colleague, erstwhile House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, for kowtowing to the Religious Right.
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