Use of erstwhile in Sentences. 27 Examples

The examples include erstwhile at the start of sentence, erstwhile at the end of sentence and erstwhile in the middle of sentence

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erstwhile at the start of sentence


  1. Erstwhile workers may have become managers.

erstwhile in the middle of sentence


  1. His erstwhile friends turned against him.
  2. He has won over many of his erstwhile critics.
  3. She found herself ostracized by erstwhile friends.
  4. Both are in better shape than their erstwhile rivals.
  5. What were your options when an erstwhile love returned?
  6. It was my erstwhile swain, looking much the same as 10 years earlier.
  7. He had what appeared to be the vestiges of some erstwhile athleticism.
  8. She certainly needed a cup of tea, even if her erstwhile visitor didn't.
  9. With her erstwhile host's kind permission, she reminded herself bitterly.
  10. He fled to America with Phyllis Burton, an erstwhile friend of his wife's.
  11. The same will be said of Mr Blair by erstwhile colleagues when he has gone.
  12. But have the erstwhile long stay patients swelled the ranks of homeless people?
  13. But after October they rapidly became disillusioned with their erstwhile allies.
  14. This erstwhile schoolmaster had discovered a way of keeping us quiet in the evenings.
  15. To be candid, Hal, as a sop to their erstwhile allies and a mask to their true intentions.
  16. One seems to need a dose of superiority to overcompensate for the erstwhile sense of inferiority.
  17. Where does an artist like Kafka come from? he typed, squinting at his erstwhile friend's crumpled manuscript.
  18. The nation state, particularly in the third world and the erstwhile Eastern bloc, is the agent of global capital.
  19. When the freed slaves landed, they enthusiastically started replicating the lifestyle of their erstwhile masters.
  20. They grabbed rifles and fired volley after volley into the air to show their erstwhile companions that it could be done.
  21. Once there Sanson, her erstwhile admirer and friend, stepped forward and dispatched the former Court favourite to the grave.
  22. As to its characteristic, by reading text, it analyses the oriental _ western culturals, and transcends erstwhile nationalism.
  23. The movie theatres were showing well-made and respectable films to a large public that included many of their erstwhile critics.
  24. Others say she avenges herself of the insult offered by her erstwhile lover by luring fishermen and other sailors to their doom.
  25. In a written order, Yeltsin charged his erstwhile buddy with slandering the president and his family and disclosing state secrets.
  26. Will the erstwhile crimson-lipped peroxide devil-doll, the very anti-Madonna, be raging with paranoia and brutal honesty on her next record?

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