Example sentences for: ex-

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

  • Ex-Editor Tina Brown writes a valedictory, thanking her colleagues, "an extraordinary group of men and women striving to make and remake America's finest magazine."

  • The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.

  • But in the same pages, deficit-hawk ex-Sens.

  • The musician who first set this pace was the ex-Nazi Herbert von Karajan, who in the late 1950s was simultaneously principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, and the Salzburg festival.

  • The other story that gets most everybody's attention is the testimony yesterday before the Thompson committee of ex-NSC aide Sheila Heslin.


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