Sentence examples for erstwhile profession from inspiring English sources
He doesn't think his erstwhile profession (tropical agriculture) would take him back if he stopped writing.
About half of "The Management Myth" is an exposé of management consulting (the emperor has no clothes); the rest is Stewart's exploration of his erstwhile profession's checkered past (the emperor never did), although the kind of business book people have been buying for, oh, the past half century is instruction (you, too, can be an emperor!).
Assad, the squeamish eye doctor, has betrayed his erstwhile profession by spilling so much blood.
And the erstwhile movie brats of the New Hollywood — upstarts like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola — are at the age when people in other professions start contemplating retirement.
"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?
Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).
Erstwhile frontrunner Jeb Bush has weighed in, too.
The erstwhile prophets were now establishment functionaries.
