Sentence examples for formerly spent from inspiring English sources

Afternoons formerly spent playing softball are now spent looking after two of her younger siblings.

Some months he has paid more than the $67 a month he formerly spent on a traditional plan.

The energy that we formerly spent on digestion (and digestion requires far more energy than you might imagine) was freed up, enabling our brains, which also consume enormous amounts of energy, to grow larger.

Instead of making a big push on training and job searching, it basically gave each state a blank check -- roughly equal to the money the federal government had formerly spent on welfare -- to spend as it saw fit.

Moore, who lives in west London but formerly spent time at the Occupy protest camp near St Paul's Cathedral in central London, said he was charged with a public order offence after refusing a police officer's order to leave the site.

Rigo had formerly spent three years at Starbucks as SVP of food, after the coffee giant bought La Boulange, the bakery chain Rigo founded in 1996.

Jan (formerly James Morrisspentnt years reporting for The Guardian and still writes travel pieces, but is also the author of a three-volume history of the British Empire.

Formerly, he spent years working at Amazon and Netflix, where he implemented what have now been dubbed chaos engineering principles into those software teams.

Whereas formerly patients spent many days or even weeks in the hospital, they often now are discharged within a few days, or even the same day.

The past 20 years has seen radical shifts to the job of activists, which formerly meant spending most of one's time addressing and stuffing envelopes (or distributing handbills, or putting up posters), and using a few stolen moments around the edges to figure out what the posters, letters and handbills should say.

In perhaps the worst example, the formerly interesting Andrea spent the third season behaving with such offensive stupidity (among other things, she shacked up with a cult leader nicknamed the Governor, even after she discovered his prized aquarium of zombie heads) that viewers cheered when she was tortured.