Sentence examples for are erstwhile from inspiring English sources

However, some linguists who assume that creoles are erstwhile pidgins that were nativized and expanded by children tend to lump both kinds of vernaculars as creoles.

In today's politics, it is erstwhile Baathists and the Communist Party that speak a secular language more familiar to Americans.

Many of the Indians involved in the rebellion were erstwhile soldiers of the empire who had been seized by nihilistic ideas.

Amanda's temporary replacement is erstwhile Baywatch star Carmen Electra – and it is this unwelcome substitution that seems to have incensed a crowd hopped up on misdirected anger.

They were erstwhile Spike Lees, showing their stuff in the rival arena, just as the Spikester does in his lightning raids to Miami and to Indiana during the basketball playoffs, now ended in New York.

Such languages may be erstwhile pidgins, as with Lingala in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Nigerian and Cameroon pidgins, or Hiri Motu and Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea; they may also be non-pidginized varieties such as Swahili in East Africa or Hausa in West Africa.

The Walter of its title is erstwhile TV exec Walter Iuzzolino, who has hand-picked these foreign-language series, from Danish vampire thriller Heartless to Kabul Kitchen, a French comedy-drama based on the real-life tale of a journalist who ran a restaurant for expats during during the early 00s US war in Afghanistan.

But if anyone can relate to being in the spotlight at Bieber's age, it's erstwhile 'N Sync star Joey Fatone.

It can now be understood that labeled molecular oxygen could also lead to the production of labeled water (a phenomena which was erstwhile considered to be a proof for the hypothesis that Compound I formed water, in the presence of poor substrates!) from CPR's oxygen activation and peroxide depleting activities, without the need for heme-center involvement.

For example, anti-hypertensive medications that were erstwhile well tolerated may induce postural dizziness because alpha-synucleinopathy weakens neurovascular tone.

The regime has even lost the sympathy and support of Noam Chomsky, an icon of the global left who was once an erstwhile admirer.