Sentence examples for in the erstwhile from inspiring English sources

There's a small kitchen set in the erstwhile altar, but the real showstopper is the retractable roof, which makes sleeping under the twinkling stars a possibility.

It is to be noted that in the erstwhile Soviet Union aesthetic evaluation of fiction was replaced by ideological judgment.

We have not benefited from the massive mad rises in house prices in the erstwhile slum area where we live.

Many parents realize there's a bit of marketing and branding here in the erstwhile home of "Mad Men's" dream couple of Don and Betty Draper.

(The Samaritans were a Judaized mixture of native north Israelites and Gentile deportees settled by the Assyrians in the erstwhile northern kingdom).

The man who would have been maharaja was exceedingly popular among his family's former subjects in the erstwhile princely state of Gwalior.

In Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was a frequent visitor at the Data Darbar in Lahore, while in Bangladesh, the erstwhile President Ershad famously patronised the pir of Atroshi throughout during his tumultuous time in office.

One of the few times a rapper seems to have wholeheartedly supported a Republican is in Baltimore rapper King Los's 2010 track "Next Black President," in which the erstwhile Bad Boy affiliate rapped, "Verbally I'm Ben Carson / Y'all duplicate the wheel, I reinvent awesome".

In "Ingrid," the erstwhile home-deserter is revealed as a diligent mother and housewife trying to make ends meet on a shoestring, the plucky prizewinner of Defiance, Italy.

The mogul, Zhang Mingyu, claims to have a tape recording in which the erstwhile vice mayor, Wang Lijun, threatened him and demanded that Mr. Zhang stop accusing his rival of swindling him.

The exhibition brochure contains a poem by Roger Waters in which the erstwhile leader of Pink Floyd hymns the "asdic ping" of pianos past and "dancing motes that never fade away".