Sentence examples for my former answer from inspiring English sources

I pray thee, bear my former answer back: Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.

Those who incline to the direct (or naïve) realist view of perception will favour the latter answer, whereas those who subscribe to the indirect realist (or Lockean-style representational) view of perception will favour the former answer.

If a pediatrician asks how many words the toddler has uttered and is told "three hundred", she might well enquire "word types or word tokens?" because the former answer indicates a prodigy.

The disagreement between realists about tense (or A-theorists) and anti-realists about tense (or B-theorists), for instance, is sometimes taken to boil down to a disagreement about the question whether there are tensed facts: the former answer 'Yes' while the latter say 'No'.

By the end of the week, my (former) boss wasn't answering my emails.

While the former answers with the last known location, the latter corresponds to an asynchronous notification request (e.g., "Notify me by e-mail when Alice arrives to room 19 after she has left the cafeteria").

If the former answered the questionnaires more critically, this finding is even more salient.

The former answered the questionnaires at home, the latter in hospital.

Were these my only two options, my answer is obviously the former.

Skip ahead to the seven minute mark to hear the former President answer questions about "My Little Pony".

Until its former leaders answer for these awful crimes, Yugoslavia should get only a welcoming handshake from the rest of Europe, not an embrace.