How to Use erstwhile in a Sentence

erstwhile

adjective

• Now the erstwhile Fresh Prince is out to prove there's still some sheen to his crown.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
• The erstwhile second-rater was now high on the lists of great presidents.
  — Frank Gannon, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• Most of his erstwhile partners on the center and left now oppose joining him due to his trial.
  — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
• Still, the erstwhile tax credit made the cars more accessible.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
• The Sox are stripping fans of one of the last great things about the erstwhile national pastime.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• The 30-minute film about the erstwhile big, ballpark by the river will be shown in the hall of fame’s theater.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2022
• Maybe, but Rue's too busy with her suitcase of drugs to concern herself with an erstwhile girlfriend.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 24 Jan. 2022
• How could anyone dispute this as an erstwhile call to avoid AI robot weaponization?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• But the erstwhile chain’s brand is alive and kicking in a new nostalgia play from collectibles maker Funko.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 13 June 2023
• There’s a good chance that that will put paid to our erstwhile spare moon, flinging it out of harm’s way, and out of the Terran family.
  — Duncan Forgan, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
• And, on Wednesday, the erstwhile leader of the Plastics revealed why.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Even so, that revelation about her health isn’t sitting with many people — including erstwhile fans of the scene.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 8 Dec. 2022
• In his place, a more mature version of the franchise’s erstwhile top prospect has materialized.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 15 July 2022
• Yet many of my erstwhile ideological allies have not reached the same conclusions about the folly of regime change.
  — Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2023
• The same rule applied to any erstwhile nation, from the British West Indies to Zaire.
  — Will Noble, CNN, 27 Oct. 2021
• The erstwhile fundraising whiz, 48, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
  — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• And with the latest declines even some erstwhile inflation hawks have acknowledged that the outlook is now benign.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• The administration had hoped that our erstwhile Saudi friends might help out by pumping a little more out.
  — NBC News, 20 Mar. 2022
• Falling for Christmas, her first film in three years, has been framed as the erstwhile beach-club manager’s grand return to acting.
  — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2022
• For one, Chicago is getting numb to seeing its erstwhile heroes in another city’s colors by now.
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
• This Is Us, though the erstwhile teen pop princess did earn a nomination back in 2019.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 13 July 2022
• But for all the debate and side-taking, Brady and his erstwhile usurper have not faced off in an NFL game.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• Cheney's defeat marks a bookend to a meteoric rise and swift fall for an erstwhile GOP star.
  — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2022
• Her father is musician and writer David Turin, an erstwhile editor of mine some three decades ago.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
• While Russia obsesses over Ukraine, its erstwhile friends and clients are quietly slipping away.
  — Jeremy Shapiro, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
• Right now, Biden is reduced to flailing (and failing) attempts to get either erstwhile allies or our enemies to send us more oil.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
• The thieves made off with nine items of jewelry belonging to members of France's erstwhile royal families.
  — Jamie Gray, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025
• One angle is to pair up with erstwhile heads-down AI developers to figure out ways to get AI to do this.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• The less obvious part is the erstwhile ambient instrumentalist’s return to her own voice.
  — Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 29 Apr. 2026
• One of those new Tesla factories will be right next door to the erstwhile automotive heavyweights just outside of Berlin.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022