FORMERLY in a Sentence

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362 example sentences for FORMERLY, such as:

1. She was pregnant by a former client.
2. He no longer came quite close to them as formerly.
3. He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.
4. John chanced upon a former colleague of his at the airport.
5. Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORMERLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
formerly
 ad.  previously;at an earlier time; once
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In addition to this, there was in the garden a stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in which the Bishop kept two cows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
2  The door of the dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door of a prison.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
3  Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, and, possibly, a violent man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
4  At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
5  He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, had been summoned in vain."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
6  He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found himself a gardener once more.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
7  Where he had formerly beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
8  Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOU...
9  She had besides, more than formerly, in her face that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a prison adds to wretchedness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
10  This coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to virginity and modesty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
11  He no longer came quite close to them as formerly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF
12  But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing to those who were cold.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN
13  Through these windows there was formerly visible a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Force.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
14  It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly so heedless and so bold.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
15  The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the wall into the convent recurred to him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
Example Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
16  Johnson returned to the track after his ban but was a shadow of his former self.
17  The president's former aides were called to testify at his trial.
18  It would change the military strategies of the former Warsaw Pact countries and lead to troop reductions.
19  John chanced upon a former colleague of his at the airport.
20  The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
21  He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.
22  Government ministers have been responding to the challenge thrown down by their former colleague.
23  He might have been murdered by a former client or someone harbouring a grudge.
24  She was pregnant by a former client.
25  Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception.
26  A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
27  The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
28  This could mean that we end up with a revolving door Congress, in which former members return as lobbyists.
29  Where unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that the latter is due to the former.
30  Mike Foster, a former Democrat who joined the Republican Party.