Sentence example with the word 'erstwhile'

erstwhile

already, bygone, early, former, heretofore, late, olden, onetime, prehistoric, previously, primitive, quondam, sometime, whilom

Definition adv. at a previous time

Last update: September 2, 2015


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Having lost his fortune his erstwhile friends deserted him.   [Please select]

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Unfortunately at the very outset of its career the composition of the new cabinet proved disappointing; for while such men as Count Guicciardini, the minister for foreign affairs, and Signor Luzzatti at the treasury commanded general approval, the choice of Signor Sacchi as minister of justice and of Signor Pantano as minister of agriculture and trade, both of them advanced and militant Radicals, savoured of an unholy compact between the premier and his erstwhile bitter enemies, which boded ill for tht~ success of the administration.   [Please select]

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Perhaps my erstwhile host ben Nazir had understood a little German after all.   [Please select]

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The next man on his feet was ben Nazir, my erstwhile host, who had repudiated me.   [Please select]

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In the foremost of the fighting was Captain Stoneman, erstwhile commander of the Algonquin.   [Please select]

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"So I did," replied the erstwhile commander of the Albatross, "but that's no reason we are."   [Please select]

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Found by this Flibbertigibbet of a fellow, while I, Simon de Gex, erstwhile M.   [Please select]

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And now the erstwhile doubting eyes reflected naught but awe.   [Please select]

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His erstwhile sad and melancholy face was flushed and bright with happiness.   [Please select]

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He had not even time enough to lower his head to protect his throat or to rear and meet his erstwhile subject's attack halfway.   [Please select]

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He had sent the party after Abdul Kamak, and he was wroth that instead of his erstwhile lieutenant they had sent back a wounded and useless Englishman.   [Please select]

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