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

Some of the San Jose Three's quondam colleagues have attempted to portray them as unrealistic idealists because they are members of a self-improvement group called the Creative Initiative Foundation.

From Time Magazine Archive

It soon becomes clear that Mitchell is not about to shoulder the blame and is, in fact, as adept at shifting it as are his quondam colleagues.

From Time Magazine Archive

The animal itself was as peaceful and well-behaved as that father of all picture-wolves—Red Riding Hood’s quondam friend, whilst moving her confidence in masquerade.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker