Sentence examples for by a formerly from inspiring English sources

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), the first autobiography by a formerly enslaved African American woman, candidly describes her experience of the sexual exploitation that made slavery especially oppressive for black women.

A third-place finish at a tournament last month by a formerly obscure player was so startling that organizers searched his clothing and took apart his pen looking for evidence that he had outside help.

What most New Yorkers can probably recall is the year they spent their rent money on an all-you-candrink (and we're not talking French Champagne) mosh pit, sponsored by a formerly exclusive nightclub.

Rather was it action by a formerly despised judiciary which in the past few years has been trying to live down its record of being the handmaidens of terrorist military regimes.

Still, if only to make up for the flattery lavished on Modi by Barack Obama and Cameron, Corbyn should remind him of the values enshrined in India's constitution – a document drafted by a formerly "untouchable" man that promises every Indian, no matter what his or her ethnicity, religion or political inclination, equality and social justice.

Coincidentally, the French president was seriously tainted by a formerly cozy relationship with Libya's dictator. .

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FAVORITE OBJECT: I have walking canes made by Roosevelt Wilkerson, a formerly homeless man in Dallas.

But contrast Washington's celebration of freedom with an account by Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved woman turned reformer and author.

The play, which runs through Oct. 1, also has an accompanying photo exhibit created by Mark Ellinger, a formerly homeless San Francisco resident.

FIRST, one submits to being frisked in the hallway by Eddie, a formerly homeless guy from New Paltz, N.Y., whose thoroughness depends on his mood.