Sentence examples for the former name from inspiring English sources

"The former name contained things that are no longer relevant to the group".

That was the former name of a different museum in Newcastle.

They are likely to comprise Williams & Glyn's branches – the former name for its branches outside Scotland.

There are references to "Leningrad" and "Video Display Terminals" and "the former name of Zaire," now itself a former name.

It is the former name of a region of northeastern Afghanistan, not an imaginary place invented by Rudyard Kipling.

In 1908, the bridge, during its construction, was actually called Blackwell's Island Bridge, after the former name of Roosevelt Island.

It is an Indian state -- not part of the Northwest Frontier, the former name of an area of Pakistan where tandoori cooking also developed.

The shaggy-haired Blake sailed in the Whitbread Race, the former name of the Volvo Race, on five occasions, finally winning it in 1990 aboard Steinlager Two.

But the former name that perhaps best distills Byram's essence is East Port Chester, derived from the village of Port Chester, N.Y., just across the Byram River.

José Cruz is really Humberto Zúñiga, but for the authorities who detained this Mexican worker, the former name is the valid one.

An earlier version of a graphic that appeared with this article misstated the former name of a section of the Metropolitan Opera.