How to Use formerly in a Sentence

formerly

adverb

• He was formerly a congressman.
• The area had formerly been the city dump.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
• There’s yet again hope where there formerly wasn’t.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• His steely eyes, formerly clear as split glass, turned lake-like, opaque.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
• Even people formerly around the game agree.
  — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 25 Mar. 2026
• And formerly rounding out the top three was Ref.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
• Biemlofen, formerly known as Biem.
  — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2025
• But some formerly open-air areas will now be covered.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• Where did those formerly faithful go?
  — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
• Gore appeared in court in a gray collared shirt, his formerly shaggy hair cut short.
  — oregonlive, 12 June 2023
• What was formerly open pastureland has been razed and graded for home sites.
  — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
• The artist formerly known as Kanye West thinks this is a great time for a comeback.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025
• An outbreak of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — spread around the world.
  — Farai Mutsaka, ajc, 16 Dec. 2022
• Trump was formerly friends with Epstein.
  — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
• Don Mustard, who is formerly of Epic Games, which is very cool.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 1 May 2026
• The Beach Club has shed its formerly dark aesthetic for a lighter, brighter vibe.
  — Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
• The restaurant took over a strip-mall spot that formerly housed a Subway sandwich shop.
  — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2026
• This vintage gelatin salad was formerly the star of ladies' luncheons across the South.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
• Some Dunkin' fans on X, formerly Twitter, have said the code no longer works.
  — Chris Sims, IndyStar, 1 Apr. 2026
• The art gallery formerly in the Conrad displayed art for 13 years.
  — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
• Shelton said as the crowd cheered, as seen in a video shared on X (formerly known as Twitter).
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
• Lemon formerly spent 17 years at CNN.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
• He had been tied with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, with four album of the year nods.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
• Broadnax, formerly of Texarkana, was 19 at the time of the murders.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
• From its earliest days, this church served as a pillar of survival for the formerly enslaved.
  — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Feb. 2026
• In other words, the formerly sizzling metros have gone cold, and the unsexy plodders are back in vogue.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
• The lake that formerly covered the work was far out, glistening nearly out of sight, and the sand cracked beneath our feet.
  — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
• There, gazers can look at the construction site formerly known as the East Wing.
  — Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
• This is an outfit set up by Eric Schmidt, formerly of Google.
  — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• The lot, which was formerly owned by Wauwatosa Gas, has been vacant for several years.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2022