Example sentences for: former

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

  • But the merger of two former competitors is inherently more suspicious than a company that comes to dominate the market through its own growth.

  • Everybody's front page also carries word that the McKinney trial jury didn't send the former sergeant major of the Army to jail, but did bust him down one rank, a move that will cost him $10,000 a year in pension money.

  • The Daily Telegraph ran an interview with former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in which she said that she too feared she would be murdered and had therefore decided to stay in Britain rather than return to Pakistan to fight a conviction for corruption.

  • Although not officially a present or former Cabinet member, Monica Lewinsky has spent time in the Cabinet room.

  • At that time, the South Carolina Bar adopted a dues check-off for legal services, earmarking 20% for the former state support center, South Carolina Legal Services Association.


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