Sentence examples for were formerly made from inspiring English sources

While they were formerly made of glass, plastic films are now extensively used.

While reputations were formerly made with experimental work, now nonprofit theaters feel pressure to produce more mainstream fare with Broadway potential.

The huts of Scottish Highlanders were formerly made of heather and heath stems cemented with peat mud mixed with dry grass or straw; today, temporary sheds are often built in a similar way and roofed with heather.

To the east is Tundi Khel, the parade ground, in the centre of which is a stone platform surrounding a tree, from which important government pronouncements were formerly made first to the army.

Some of the money has been used to pave roads - which were formerly made of crushed coral - and to build schools.

Polystyrene foam was formerly made with the aid of chlorofluorocarbon blowing agents—a class of compounds that has been banned for environmental reasons.

The Democratic Party was formerly made up of "two distinct and ideologically incompatible elements: a white, conservative, largely racist Southern Democratic Party, and a mixed-race, more progressive Northern Democratic Party," McConnell points out.

Take Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was born an untouchable (as Dalits were formerly known) and then made himself one of the most educated men in India.

He suggested that Caitlyn Jenner, the TV personality and Olympian who was formerly Bruce Jenner, had made a mistake in undergoing gender transition and had "no clue" what being transsexual involved.

Many were formerly incarcerated.

Shoes from the designer's footwear collection, Mark McNairy New Amsterdam, and tailored pieces from the Ivy League-inspired outfitter J. Press, where McNairy was formerly creative director, have made their way into an eclectic mix of closets, from traditional to trendy.