quondam

Example Sentences

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You get the porthole windows of the quondam Seamen’s Union building and a tiny storefront that grandly introduces itself as the National School of Dancing.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2016

Hitchens was, not for the first time, drawing on the conceptual repertoire of his quondam Trotskyism to justify his stance.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

After the authorities finally arrived, M�rio Eduardo Firmenich, leader of the quondam Argentine urban guerrilla organization known as the Montoneros, surrendered without a struggle.

From Time Magazine Archive

A quondam poet who once played poker for a living in Manhattan, he contends that "it doesn't matter what goes on at this school as long as the kids are learning."

From Time Magazine Archive

I head now for the Virginia Colony in the company of my quondam charge, the Negro boy Octavian—in which country, he avoweth, he shall rise in arms against the vile practice of slavery.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson