Words similar to once-great

Example sentences for: once-great

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Its riches were stolen long ago, the once-great river is a silted shadow of its former self, and Silves is now just a dusty backwater, but the glorious setting remains.
Only a few lonely dentists would survive to fill the few remaining cavities, the last vestiges of a once-great civilization on Long Island.
Francis Ford Coppola's legal thriller is judged the best Grisham film to date, as well as a modest comeback for the once-great director.
Witness the death throes of the once-great Harrison Ford's career.