Sentence examples for you formerly from inspiring English sources

If you formerly required managers to show a 15% return before introducing a new SKU, up the number to 25%—which probably reflects added complexity costs more accurately.

Cheering for a stranger, or a player you formerly cheered against, as he jumps on your team's moving bandwagon, can make even the most playoff-giddy fan feel a pang of foolishness, shallowness, or even hypocrisy.

Yet in the last three or four seasons, his clothes have become more complicated, more ornate, with expensive embroidery and dressy effects like pleating that you formerly associate with Gucci, where Mr. Bailey once worked.

And you, formerly white toaster oven, now turned eight shades of dirty; you, with your heating elements so exhausted that a simple piece of toast requires two full blasts with the controls cranked up to the setting mockingly labeled "dark" — for you, we have a very attractive buyout offer that we hope you will seriously consider.

The most famous example of badly chosen initial premises is the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" As posed, it allows only two responses -- either you formerly beat your wife but no longer do so, or you still beat her.

Did you do something you formerly thought was impossible?

You owns you Ted Turner (formerly).

You know, you were formerly the commander of DCMA, Defense Contract Management Agency.

If you were formerly religious, do you feel as though God let you down in some way?

M. HERZOG: Defendant Sauckel, you said to us only yesterday that you were formerly a worker.

B.B.: You often make note of the fact that you were formerly a literary agent.