Sentence examples for ex- from inspiring English sources
The word "ex-" is correct and usable in written English
It is often used as a prefix to form words, indicating that something or someone is former or no longer a part of something or someone. Example: My ex-husband and I went out for dinner last night.
"See, if I'm an outward-going person, then maybe my ex is the opposite, very quiet, private.
Lighting up again, he says that throughout the disintegration of his marriage – with the ex he refuses to name here for reasons of privacy – he maintained his integrity and dignity, "for my children's sake".
In 2008, convinced that his ex needed geographical distance from him too, he moved abroad.
Unfortunately potential output is not observable, not even ex post".
The problem is, you don't trust your boyfriend - and who would blame you, as he clearly deceived you by seeing his ex?
The first academic casualty of the Boston College-Jean McConville furore has been a parallel project which was to involve a London-based historian and an ex-RUC officer as well as retired members of the Garda Siochana in the Irish Republic, all with long records in fighting terrorism.
There is also a telephone to which only the band's ex-members have the number: if it rings and a museum-goer picks it up, they will find themselves in the disconcerting position of holding a conversation with one of Abba while standing in front of a vast floor-to ceiling photograph of Abba.
While many former Tories ended their flirtation with Ukip and went back home, ex-Labour Ukip defectors stayed with their new party.
On Monday Boston College announced it was prepared to give back taped recordings and other material to dozens of ex-IRA and loyalist paramilitaries who had taken part.
But what does it all mean as Europe gently frazzles and David Goodhart, ex-editor of Prospect, now director of the Demos thinktank, pens an ambitious FT article (paywall) promoting a new settlement for British politics, what he calls "post-liberalism"?
Fresnes is of the same vintage as La Santé and boasts a similar roll-call of notorious ex-cons.
