FORMER in a Sentence

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For FORMER, below is one of 362 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORMER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
former
 a.  preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
16  He might have been murdered by a former client or someone harbouring a grudge.
17  She was pregnant by a former client.
18  Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception.
19  A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
20  The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
21  This could mean that we end up with a revolving door Congress, in which former members return as lobbyists.
22  Where unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that the latter is due to the former.
23  Mike Foster, a former Democrat who joined the Republican Party.
24  Both Democratic and Republican parties are courting former supporters of Ross Perot.
25  He is a former defence secretary of the United States and a grandee of the Democratic Party.
26  Despite everything, she bore her former boss no animosity.
27  It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
28  A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
29  The company is suing a former employee.
30  She's a former council employee/employee of the council.