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Example sentences for "erstwhile"

Lexicographically close words:
ershadowing; erspread; erst; erste; ersten; ertake; erth; erthe; ertheless; erthely
  1. Kuppenheimer, postcard shops laden to the sill's edge with lithographs disclosing erstwhile Saturday Evening Post cover heroines, and case upon case displaying in lordly enthusiasm the choicest cranial confections of the house of Stetson.

  2. The success of Prussian diplomacy in enslaving these erstwhile independent German lands in 1815 was crucial for the subsequent direction of Prussian policy.

  3. She has settled herself in one of the larger houses in the bend of the semi-circle at the top, which was erstwhile the dwelling-place of Mr. Alfred Wigan.

  4. Where are the solid, but dull, old, grey houses which erstwhile stood on this spot?

  5. The iron peak is gay, o’ershadowed the fierce martial glint, and the plumes, erstwhile levin bolts, now nod with blossoms.

  6. She complained that she, who was erstwhile the mother of all living things, had suddenly taken upon her the hated guise of a stepmother.

  7. The garb of Latium covers his breast and the toga graces what erstwhile the cuirass protected.

  8. His fear makes him believe every road barred, and rivers, erstwhile left behind in scorn, fill him with alarm on his return.

  9. Foul was now that hair, more beauteous erstwhile than gold; night had dimmed the fire of her eyes and frost banished the roses from her pale cheeks.

  10. This memorable meeting of the erstwhile warring hosts agreed absolutely as to the main conditions on which the Land Settlement of 1903 ought to be preserved--viz.

  11. The great bell of Yaroslav would clang out the curfew of the dethroned kniaz, who was thenceforth "shown the way" out of his erstwhile principality.

  12. Then like a god from the blue appeared to the famishing and despairing Novgorodskie their erstwhile prince, Mstislav of Toropetz.

  13. Personally, then, it hardly seems to me that six Germans are enough to pay for the little finger of Holy John, erstwhile Conscientious Objector.

  14. Heavy war losses down-graded all of the erstwhile European powers.

  15. Relations between these erstwhile sovereign units have been determined by a shifting mixture of diplomacy and armed force, with war playing a determining role in the process.

  16. You may rest assured of one thing, Sir Percy," he said with a harsh laugh, "that enough mud will be thrown at that erstwhile glorious Scarlet Pimpernel.

  17. Somehow the unforgetable resplendency of my erstwhile typist (who married the jeweller's clerk) faded into a pale, ineffective drab when opposed to the charms of Mrs. Betty Billy Smith.

  18. Then appeared on the scene that extraordinary man, Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, erstwhile citizen of Glasgow.

  19. What is true of the Fitchburg is equally true of the erstwhile Housatonic.

  20. Ten seconds later, he was rushing downstairs with the erstwhile janitor at his heels and hard on the wake of Mr. Pauling's car his runabout went tearing in the same direction.

  21. As soon as Mr. Henderson reached his office, where the erstwhile janitor was on guard, he hurried the latter off and then, taking some documents from a safe and lighting his pipe, he proceeded to study the papers with minute attention.

  22. A light flashed in through the port, their erstwhile jailers had aimed a spotlight on the ship, and with the light there came the pattering of gunshot.

  23. Neither the launch nor its erstwhile occupants could be seen beneath that greenish cloud of poison gas.

  24. Thither came sundry English leaders, powerless and discredited, who now could only swell the band of an erstwhile obscure chief.

  25. Moussa smiled broadly upon his erstwhile contemptuous and insulting enemy, and began to consider the possibilities of a long and well-pointed lead-pencil as a means of vengeance.

  26. Proud, yet their pride dashed by sadness, must be the soldiering memories of this stout northman, erstwhile a front rank man in the old Ross-shire Buffs, a regiment ever true to its noble Celtic motto of Cuidichn Rhi.

  27. Here we had a chance to investigate the erstwhile German habitations.

  28. Rapid footsteps came down the unseen stairway, and a moment later the erstwhile Thomas Trotter, as fine a figure in evening dress as you'd see in a month of Sundays, stopped on the landing.

  29. I couldn't think of it," said the erstwhile Lady Jane, drawing her small stole close about her neck.

  30. Brown bore the brunt of the attack from erstwhile allies and faced it in this fashion: No constitution ever framed was without defect; no act of human wisdom was ever {90} free from imperfection.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erstwhile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    already; ancient; before; bygone; earlier; early; erstwhile; fore; former; heretofore; immemorial; late; old; once; past; preceding; prehistoric; previous; previously; primeval; primitive; prior; quondam; recent; sometime; then