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Example sentences for: erstwhile

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The erstwhile pro wrestler wasn't showing off his excellent grasp of the English language--no, he was executing a rhetorical flourish to underscore his commitment to not running for the U.S. presidency.
Chatterbox has no problem naming something else in Washington after Eisenhower, a great general and a pretty good president--there's already a theater named after him in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts--but what about his erstwhile boss, Franklin Roosevelt?
, former president of the American Dialect Society, erstwhile field researcher for DARE and contributor to many journals (including VERBATIM, mentioned on p.
Soon erstwhile Photo-Secessionists were chafing under the harness, but Strand immediately took to the more conservative elements, and between 1911 and 1913 he produced appropriately languid views of shimmering water; decorative sheep; and unfocused, mildly erotic light effects.
He gives extra humor and zest to the erstwhile lover's goodbye by wrapping it in a familiar set phrase.