Example sentences for: then-head

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

  • One former KGBer is quoted saying that the then-head of the KGB loved listening to intercepted conversations between Henry Kissinger and his then-fiancee Nancy Maginnes.

  • Both Peter G. Peterson, the prominent New York investment banker, and Michael Ovitz, then-head of Creative Artists Agency, would seem to have been more interested in making money out of the Columbia deal than in warning their client, Sony, about the risks, but the authors are too polite to come right out and say so.

  • The WP says it shows a "hurried and seemingly casual decision" arrived at by the then-head of the FBI's hostage rescue team, Richard Rogers, in a discussion with a subordinate to allow one of the team members to use incendiary military tear gas cartridges against an underground shelter near the main compound building.


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