FORMER in a Sentence

Learn FORMER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
362 example sentences for FORMER, such as:
1. Allow me to present my former teacher to you.
2. He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.
3. John chanced upon a former colleague of his at the airport.
4. The president's former aides were called to testify at his trial.
5. The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FORMER
former
 n.  the first of two or the first mentioned of two
 a.  (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His former dread started up full-armed at the suggestion.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  I was almost on the point of forgiving you for your former boorish conduct but now I shan't do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  The Bureau fed them while they loafed and poisoned their minds against their former owners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  Scarlett was so surprised at the sight of their former overseer driving so fine a rig and in so splendid a greatcoat she could not for a moment believe her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  Few women except Suellen had ever given him more than perfunctory courtesy and it was very flattering to have a former belle like Scarlett hanging on his words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  They were looking on the state they loved, seeing it trampled by the enemy, rascals making a mock of the law, their former slaves a menace, their men disfranchised, their women insulted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  The South had been tilted as by a giant malicious hand, and those who had once ruled were now more helpless than their former slaves had ever been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  The former slaves were now the lords of creation and, with the aid of the Yankees, the lowest and most ignorant ones were on top.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  The Freedmen's Bureau, overwhelmed by the numbers who poured in upon them, realized too late a part of the mistake and tried to send them back to their former owners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  The vote must be given to them but it must be denied to most of their former owners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  They didn't understand negroes or the relations between the negroes and their former masters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  I'll pass over your unjustified rudeness with the silence it deserves and return to our former subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  Whenever two former Confederates met anywhere, there was never but one topic of conversation, and where a dozen or more gathered together, it was a foregone conclusion that the war would be spiritedly refought.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  Usually the occupants of the rooms were former Confederate soldiers of the rougher, illiterate type, homeless men, men without families, beating their way about the country in hope of finding work.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1  The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking much of what he strived so hard to achieve.
2  The centre will act as a clearing house for research projects for former nuclear scientists.
3  In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing.
4  Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.
5  Allow me to present my former teacher to you.
6  There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter.
7  A former legal-aid attorney, Mr Morrison is unusual in accepting, even welcoming, a liberal label.
8  BReid, who is a former deputy district attorney, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
9  Johnson returned to the track after his ban but was a shadow of his former self.
10  The president's former aides were called to testify at his trial.
11  It would change the military strategies of the former Warsaw Pact countries and lead to troop reductions.
12  John chanced upon a former colleague of his at the airport.
13  The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
14  He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.
15  Government ministers have been responding to the challenge thrown down by their former colleague.