Sentence examples for it was formerly used from inspiring English sources
It was formerly used by Yonkers for what its name suggests -- as storage and maintenance space for a fleet of trolley cars that wove throughout this bustling city in the early 1900's.
It was formerly used extensively in chemical laboratories as an analytical reagent.
It was formerly used in various medicines, particularly purgatives, and in snuff.
It was formerly used for extracting antimony minerals from ore and for separating silver from copper with the use of lead as a solvent.
It was formerly used as a beverage, but today it is mostly condensed or dried for use in the baking and frozen desserts industry.
It was formerly used, along with fine clay or other filler, to mold phonograph records, but, after the early 1930s, synthetic thermoplastics, particularly vinyl resins, gradually replaced it.
It is no longer active, but was formerly used as a look-out post during political demonstrations in the 19th century, when trade union protests were often held in the square, and it had a phone inside with a line to Scotland Yard.
The small area of woodland surrounded by houses where all this activity is going on was formerly used for fly-tipping and not much else; it has been transformed by the efforts of the Wansdyke Play Association WPAA), working in partnership with Somer, a local housing association, and now it is the children's domain.
