Example sentences for: ex-

How can you use “ex-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a Nation article supporting these quotas, an ex-Marine recruiter boasts of his tactic for meeting these goals: "I routinely turned down long lines of qualified white males to save room for blacks.

  • Andre Turner, an ex-Marine, turned to Legal Services when he was fired from his job for missing too much work.

  • Stories of wasteful shoots abound: the matching seaweed that had to be flown from California to the Caribbean for a fashion photo; the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair cover shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger that reportedly cost $100,000; the Vogue shoot in Africa in which, an ex- Vogue editor claims, the photographer and his huge entourage wined and dined to the tune of "hundreds of thousands of dollars."

  • Rather than conclude that there was no story, the Washington Post published an article, headlined "Ex-Aides to Bauer Speak Out," which paraphrased the two men as saying Bauer's meetings with McClard "looked" inappropriate and "lent themselves to gossip and rumor."

  • Military courts are tougher on adulterers than are civil courts, making me wonder whether the ex-JAGs may be inclined to judge the president more sternly than other lawyers.


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