Sentence examples for erstwhile resident from inspiring English sources

Back in 1964, another erstwhile resident of Sri Lanka, the science-fiction writer, Arthur C Clarke, predicted that by the year 2000, "we will not be the only intelligent creatures.

His interests he said were informed by his aunt, an erstwhile resident of mental hospitals.

Not content to spearhead the bulldozing of thousands of habitable public-housing apartments in New Orleans while the erstwhile residents remain in exile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to Thursday's Times-Picayune, is slow-walking renters on assistance in the wake of the 2005 flooding out of tens of thousands of affordable units.

Public rights-of-way are being transformed into plazas, like the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza, an erstwhile intersection where residents now sit at tables sipping coffee in the sunshine.

Raised in Eastchester but now a Brooklyn resident, the erstwhile Bronx denizen wonders if the NYPD and federal officials could get away with simultaneously arresting 100 people if they weren't in his old hood.

It probably should have: Built out of police cars, the barricade's purpose was to keep the army off the reserve and protect residents against erstwhile gunfire.

Now, as changing habits and new laws alter the residents' relationship with an erstwhile local fixture, its future is looking bleak.

It is less than a mile south of the erstwhile Trump Place – a group of apartment buildings where residents successfully petitioned to have Trump's name removed in November.

These few words would not reflect Powell's legacy, nor reveal the strength of feeling of many city residents against the erection of a monument to their erstwhile MP.

When the Germans attacked their erstwhile Soviet allies in June 1941, my parents, like all the other Jewish residents of Brańsk, were confined in the ghetto.

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