Sentence examples for famous erstwhile from inspiring English sources

Then they gave the world's most famous (erstwhile) terrorist a proper Muslim burial service and respectfully threw his body into the sea.

4) Also involved in the scandal — and working to illegally steer money to the Carey campaign — was high-minded Citizen Action, another organization of pinkish hue, whose executive directors wife turns out to be none other than Karen Nussbaum, famous feminist, erstwhile Sixties firebrand and current head of the AFL-CIO Working Womens Department.

As an erstwhile agent, famous for bringing Bruce Forsyth among many other stars to the BBC, he believes the decision to make it disclose the salary of all those paid more than £450,000 will be "inflationary".

Not too many people will visit an erstwhile shopping centre famous for its sex clubs just to take in a local stage production.

However, when I mention the book to Jimmy Fox – veteran photographic historian and erstwhile director of the famous Magnum agency, which Capa co-founded with Henri Cartier-Bresson – he says: "I was dismayed by the novel.

The place is decorated with nods to all sorts of famous venues, from the Louvre to the erstwhile NYC club CBGB, and musical instruments are never more than an arm's reach away.

Within two years, his new name would be famous across the country, and from then on, Samuel Clemens, the erstwhile Confederate, would be known as Mark Twain.

At the spot where I sit with Joe and Gabe, the town's famous tower rises up behind us, a reminder of Blackpool's erstwhile success and ambition.

"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?

Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).

Erstwhile frontrunner Jeb Bush has weighed in, too.