Sentence examples for like erstwhile from inspiring English sources

These are mostly under-40 musicians from Japan, Europe and America whose work appears on small labels like Erstwhile, For 4 Ears, and Amoebic, which presented the two-day festival.

Like erstwhile pets, aircraft are shepherded and guided by a variety of different powers as they fly over the United States.

How the other Moral Mazers feel about their chairman decamping can perhaps be gauged from the theme pointedly chosen for the first programme Buerk missed – loyalty – and from their answers when another Radio 4 show, PM, naughtily asked what they'd like the erstwhile embodiment of journalistic integrity to eat in the Bush Tucker Trial ("kangaroo testicles", said the Guardian's Giles Fraser).

But the real problem was that, though America could do as it liked, its erstwhile allies didn't necessarily fall in line.

I paid 22 euros (about $27) for a rather dainty gin and tonic and the privilege of partying with Monaco's glitterati on the same dance floor where Paris Hilton met her like-named erstwhile fiancé.

Despite their punk associations, they were a slicker operation than most of their UK counterparts, dressing like beatniks, while Jacno's attire made him look like an erstwhile member of Kraftwerk.

Mr Giuliani, like his erstwhile opponent, was terribly unpopular with a large chunk of the electorate.

In his suit and tie and brown taqiyah, Blauvelt hardly seemed like an erstwhile jihadi.

A bigger difference is that Mr Miliband, much like his erstwhile hero President François Hollande of France, has not prepared his supporters for this tough reality.

FOR a few, fleeting moments, it seemed that Ukraine's president might fall to a wave of popular protest, like his erstwhile counterparts in Yugoslavia or the Philippines.

But Mr Alatas, like his erstwhile boss ex-President Suharto, who ordered the invasion of the former Portuguese colony in 1975, never so much as hinted that the shoe might be taken off and the pebble shaken free.