Sentence examples for our erstwhile from inspiring English sources

Compared to Moore, left, our erstwhile Health Secretary is a feral critic of Labour's record.

Thatcher's face recurs at every turn, not in clouds of sulfur but of exhaust, on buses bearing posters advertising Meryl Streep's celluloid turn as our erstwhile prime minister.

In the paltriest of the latter-day projects ("The Muppets' Wizard of Oz," anyone?), our erstwhile heroes seemed like the walking dead.

Instead we set out to help not only our allies but also our erstwhile enemies to rebuild their economies & their industrial strength.

It's as well to be aware of the beckoning avenues of justification that are drawing in so many of our erstwhile comrades.

We'd find it even harder to catch jihadis if we weren't swapping intelligence as effectively with our erstwhile partners across the Channel.

These are heady times for our generation's erstwhile teen heartthrobs.

We see him through the jaundiced eyes of our narrator, Valdimar Haraldsson, erstwhile author of Memoirs of a Herring Inspector and a 17-volume journal "devoted to my chief preoccupation, the link between fish consumption and the superiority of the Nordic race".

Our political leaders smile at erstwhile laugh lines calling for the failure of Rush Limbaugh's kidneys, while they promise a cradle-to-grave utopia that no mere mortals can deliver.

The signers further indicted their erstwhile monarch for "taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments".

The Trouble With Our Trains saw "Sir" Alan Sugar's erstwhile deputies, Nick and Margaret, take to the tracks to muse on why Britain's trains are 40% less efficient (and thus more expensive) than those in France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland.