Example sentences for: formerly

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

  • The most amusing thing I saw in the paper yesterday was that a man legally named DotComGuy (formerly, Mitch Maddox), is going to move into an empty house carrying only a credit card on January 1 and not leave again for the entire year, relying exclusively on the Internet for furniture, food, services and entertainment.

  • Genuine immigration abuses are the backdrop for the schlocky murder mystery, Border Line (Monday, NBC, 9 p.m.), which marks the return to television of Sherry Stringfield (formerly of ER ). But the single-mom-in-peril subplot is so trite it's a wonder she can stay awake, never mind the viewer.

  • It is no coincidence that Anderson, the standard-bearer for the Yankee-Germanic tradition in 1980, is of Swedish descent--nor is it a coincidence that in 1984, Anderson, formerly a Republican, voted for Walter Mondale, a fellow Swedish-American.

  • But then, although I formerly owned a house (in Essex, Connecticut) where the film, Let's Scare Jessica to Death was made, I have survived that peril.

  • Formerly the Moors’ parade ground, it is lined with imposing buildings, such as the former Ajuntament (now the police headquarters) and great 19th-century mansions (grand Palau Torresaura and Palau Salord).


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