Sentence examples for erstwhile world from inspiring English sources

His friendship with Ali took on a more protective aspect as the erstwhile world champion succumbed to Parkinson's disease in the 1980s.

The high point came when his caddy and girlfriend, the erstwhile world number one tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, decided to take a shot herself.

Today, moral grandstanding in international affairs seems antiquated, especially coming from two erstwhile world powers from Europe who are unable to punch their political weight as permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Before the book was published I had to rewrite it because in the meantime, the computer Deep Blue beat the erstwhile human world champion, Gary Kasparov.

The late Reinhard Hellwig, erstwhile Guinness world record holder for the largest mouse trap collection, held a talk at the fiftieth anniversary of the Tinker Museum in Zilina, Slovakia, in 1992.

That's important because in the erstwhile "shadowy" world many fly-by-night operations could lay claim to being Al Qaeda in (name your country).

In this anxious world, an erstwhile axeman now looks like the nearest thing to a rescuer on offer.

The show is based on a 1998 documentary series in which Pulp's erstwhile frontman investigated the world of what is usually called outsider art – a contentious term that, since it was coined by writer Roger Cardinal in 1972, has been used to describe everything from art made by people with mental health issues to the work of folk artists.

Piutau turned 24 the very day his erstwhile team-mates raised the World Cup.

In the first room is a view across the Seine by Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat, one of the forgotten masters of this erstwhile art that changed the world.

At both of those events, the ultimate sadness was that while South Koreans thronged the streets in their millions to celebrate being at the center of world attention, their erstwhile kinfolk north of the D.M.Z. were left out.