formerly

[ˈfɔːrmərli]

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.