erstwhile

Example Sentences

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Once part of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, it was known as "garden city" or a "pensioner's paradise".

From Barron's

Fourteenth Street, the city’s erstwhile red-light district, begin to fill up with fashionable restaurants.

From Washington Post

Riordan understood what our erstwhile owners did not: We had all skirmished in the arena, but there was no reason we couldn’t celebrate the important role of an independent media.

From Los Angeles Times

That he spent all of his adult life in erstwhile Bombay - one of the earliest cities to be influenced by the Art Deco movement - was probably a crucial reason why he gravitated towards this style.

From BBC

We walked by the erstwhile locations of old stamping grounds Sunset Beer Co. and the ArcLight Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times