Example sentences for: ex-

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

  • Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler describes how an ex-R.J.

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

  • 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 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.

  • Pokémon's inventor is a Japanese introvert and ex- Space Invaders addict who obsessively collected beetles as a kid.


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