Sentence examples for formerly popular from inspiring English sources

I take meeting one (even a formerly popular one) as cause for celebration, not a snit.

Japan's 1999 law has also helped stamp out a formerly popular genre of photo books depicting nude under-age girls.

The hit retro toy of the season is Shrinky Dinks, a crafts toy formerly popular in the 1970's.

Complaint, also called plaint, in literature, a formerly popular variety of poem that laments or protests unrequited love or tells of personal misfortune, misery, or injustice.

In Britain, for example, Facebook made the formerly popular Bebo all but irrelevant, forcing AOL to sell the site at a huge loss two years after it bought it for $850 million.

The worst-hit areas were storage properties for the Canal Market and the famous pub the Hawley Arms, which was formerly popular with Hell's Angels but more recently has transformed itself into one of the area's trendiest nightspots.

Paramount's revenues were much smaller than those of a true television network, and gradually Paramount began losing program sponsors or ended production on formerly-popular television series.

The girl Erin's talking about is the blond, blue-eyed, formerly very popular Melanie.

Amid President Felipe Calderón's crackdown against drug gangs, Acapulco, formerly a popular tourist destination for Americans, saw a drastic increase in homicides in 2010 and 2011.

Israel, formerly a popular destination for Eritrean refugees, has cracked down on immigration in recent months, driving more Eritreans to seek asylum on European shores.

Thanks to government jamming devices, access to the BBC's Persian-language channel, formerly a popular source of news, has become well-nigh impossible in most parts of Tehran.