Example sentences for: ex-

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

  • There is no authentic dialect in the ex-British Caribbean, not even in the sense of a pejorative corruption of a parent tongue (as in Pennsylvania Dutch, for instance).

  • Le Figaro of Paris splashed across five columns an allegation aired on French and German television that one of ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl's secret financial benefactors was late French President François Mitterrand.

  • In Bob Roberts , Tim Robbins plays a right-wing folk singer running for the Senate with the help of a rogue ex-CIA agent.

  • A Mexican judge convicted Raul Salinas , the brother of Mexico's ex-President Carlos Salinas, of ordering a murder and sentenced him to 50 years in jail.

  • The bumper sticker in the accompanying photo uses a proper verb to reflect that prevalent Pacific Northwest opinion concerning their new, ex-California neighbors.


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