formerly

Definition:
1. At a previous time.
2. In earlier times.

Use 'formerly' in a sentence:

• 1. Formerly I loved acquiring these beautiful works created by the hand of man.
• 2. Or did a covering of strata formerly extend over it, which has since been removed?
• 3. Even killing microbes that were formerly antibiotic resistant.
• 4. The formerly [once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
• 5. Formerly, Ted often lingered around a park, with nothing to do.
• 6. This formerly inaccessible place can now be reached by road and rail.
• 7. A fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, formerly used for clothing.
• 8. Over the course of 80 million years, they evolved into tractor-trailer sized, long-necked plant-eaters, like Apatosaurus, formerly known as Brontosaurus.
• 9. The British were formerly dominant in India.
• 10. Having a kid changes everything, from your sleep schedule to the status of that formerly spare room.
• 11. The question has been raised whether it can be concluded that for a given level of output, Delta's operation now causes less fossil fuel to be consumed than it did formerly.
• 12. Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the scottish border for protection from pillage.
• 13. What was formerly a sandbank has now become fertile paddy fields.
• 14. My good friend Dave, formerly the Glaswegian Miserablist, tries to help out.
• 15. His games now were quite different to what they had formerly been, they were so very knowing.
• 16. The formerly [ once ] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
• 17. The diamond was formerly owned by jeweler Harry Winston.
• 18. Calenture is a fever formerly supposed to affect sailors in the tropics.
• 19. They entered and hastened up to their grandmother's room, where everything was standing as formerly.
• 20. Now, in grey January, the world's formerly most visited city still feels empty.
• 21. Even entry-level workers and those in formerly unskilled positions require a growing level of education.
• 22. So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.
• 23. Father was formerly a soldier.
• 24. Cancel the target of agricultural duty 5 years surely formerly, can come true 3 years.
• 25. This fact has led naturalists to believe that the Isthmus was formerly open.
• 26. Formerly [ In the past ] the place was a heap of ruins.
• 27. There never was such a dreary, dismal scene as the formerly cheerful house presented!
• 28. Injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order.
• 29. Formerly he often lingered about [ around ] a park, doing nothing.
• 30. This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.
• 31. It was formerly called juvenile diabetes, but it can happen at any age.
• 32. These mini-satellites can fit in a launch vehicle's formerly "wasted space."
• 33. Formerly he often lingered about [around] a park, doing nothing.
• 34. Five years later, her formerly clear image now shows cancer.
• 35. Formerly a victualling station for the Royal Navy, it was an embarkation point for the invasion of France in 944.
• 36. Formerly, the relations between a teacher and his pupils were dominated by fear on the part of the pupils.
• 37. Formerly he often lingered about [ around] a park, doing nothing.
• 38. Formerly, sea power gave big nations influence over others.
• 39. The formerly [ once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
• 40. That's certainly been the fate of the formerly shocking F word.
• 41. Best to be being achieved formerly support makes a whole commercial pattern namely.
• 42. part of what was formerly known as the Western Territories and a vital hub on the Silk Road.
• 43. This was possible because of the Navy's formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans.
• 44. In this process evil things formerly accepted will not be so easily condoned.
• 45. Everything that we formerly electrified we will now cognitize.
• 46. Formerly a dilapidated pier and converted just five years ago,
• 47. I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did.
• 48. Namibia, formerly known as South West Africa.
• 49. This is the time period in which most scientists formerly believed the area to be inhospitable for humans.
• 50. We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.
• 51. Most of us, if we know even a little about where our food comes from, understand that every bite put into our mouths was formerly alive.
• 52. What did he formerly do for a living?
• 53. He had formerly been in the Navy.
• 54. He formerly led Breitbart News, a website that has printed white nationalist and anti-Semitic vitriol.
• 55. Datastores were formerly referred to as replication agents.
• 56. We find evidence of such extended events in the fossil record, which affords glimpses into the breakup of formerly continuous environments.
• 57. I know him well because he was formerly my fellow worker.
• 58. He was formerly a worker, but now he is a manager of a shop.
• 59. All the people living south of the Brahmaputra River were formerly headhunters.
• 60. Less people study Latin today than formerly.
• 61. Formerly he worked on a farm, but now he's a teacher.
• 62. She was formerly manager of the company.
• 63. These mini-satellites can fit in a launch vehicle's formerly "wasted space".
• 64. He had formerly been in the navy.
• 65. I learnt that the house had formerly been an inn.
• 66. Formerly, in prehistoric days, land animals were built on a gigantic scale.
• 67. The British were formerly dominant in india.
• 68. This process was formerly known as db2hmon.
• 69. Formerly most of our household utensils were made of brass.
• 70. It says tropical storms formerly claimed dozens, if not hundreds of lives, each year in Cuba.
• 71. This area was formerly within the sphere of influence of the US.