Sentence examples for erstwhile companions from inspiring English sources

Although Judt rightly says that Hobsbawm is an excellent writer, he curiously adds that so are E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams and Christopher Hill, "his erstwhile companions in the British Communist Historians Groupp".

The poems are formal, sighing, adorned with exclamation points, and often poignant in their wish for simple things (a little cottage, an erstwhile companion).

When testimony came to an end on Thursday, neither Mr. James, 72, nor his co-defendant and erstwhile companion, Tamika Riley, 39, had taken the witness stand in their own defense, instead relying on about a half-dozen witnesses to fend off fraud and conspiracy charges in their 13-count indictment.

On De Beauvoir's left sat her lifelong companion and erstwhile lover, the greatest philosopher of his generation and founder of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre.

At the Yellowstone, a band of five Blackfeet attacked, killing the erstwhile explorer and wounding his companion.

Her current band, Joan as Police Woman, creates dizzying, jazz-steeped rock music that recalls erstwhile collaborators, like her former companion, the folk singer Jeff Buckley, who died in 1997, and her friend and former band mate Antony Hegarty.

Shazam, the erstwhile exclusively music discovery app that has expanded into TV as a companion app letting users 'tag' TV shows (and ads) to get quick access to a plethora of related content, has today named a new chief product officer — poaching Daniel Danker from the BBC to lead "the product expansion of the Shazam service".

From then on, I knew of him as the entirely human "Mr. Safire" in anecdotes, which reinforced for me that the erstwhile supporter of Nixonian policies of dubious reputation was, however I differed with him there, an entirely plausible dinner companion, although the dinner never happened in actuality.

"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?

Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).

Train companions.