Sentence examples for erstwhile man from inspiring English sources

The idea that we might have the former head of MI5 and erstwhile Man Booker judge Dame Stella Rimington to thank for a literary prize celebrating boldness of form is as pleasingly quirky as the Folio award's first shortlist.

Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live's erstwhile Man of a Thousand Faces, sits on a couch in a Los Angeles hotel suite wearing the one face we're least familiar with: his own.

Possessive and controlling even in death, she tries to keep Ashley away from her erstwhile man through a campaign of annoyingness rather like the one Reese Witherspoon used against Mark Ruffalo in the jealous-ghost romantic comedy "Just Like Heaven".

Has the (erstwhile) Fat Man made his first big political error?

Speaking of which... never mind Radebe Does Coltrane, "they're starting to sound a bit more like the Ayler brothers and Bells", argues erstwhile Melody Maker man Richard Williams.

And would Roper's contempt for Corky, his erstwhile front man, really blind him into trusting Pine so much, for so long?

Warren has also made his erstwhile marquee man Khan "a multi-million-dollar" offer to fight Brook, which the WBA light-welter champion twittered "made me laugh out loud".

The TVPs' overlord Dan Treacy has form when it comes to name-dropping – Woody Allen, Salvador Dali and David Hockney are mentioned elsewhere in his oeuvre – but Pink Floyd's erstwhile front man is his main cultural lodestone.

"We've got no time for Liberal Democrats around here!" Such commitment from the Conservatives – there on behalf of Steve Brine, a 36-year-old alumnus of Central Office and erstwhile marketing man for golf courses – seems an awfully long way from 1997, the first election that really imprinted itself on my political memory.

The group's de facto leader, David Lewis, aka Murkage Dave, sparked up a friendship with erstwhile Streets man Mike Skinner.

Favreau posted a video to Vine on Monday night that featured the two-time Oscar winner; the accompanying tweet sent out by the erstwhile "Iron Man" director read "new cast members".