erst

[ UK /ˈɜːst/ ]
ADVERB
  1. at a previous time
    her erstwhile writing
    she was a dancer once
    at one time he loved her
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How To Use erst In A Sentence

  • Luckily, I have a very understanding boss.
  • Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
  • Oh, poof! You do not understand a little soldierly enthusiasm.
  • (Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.") Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
  • Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.
  • Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
  • The production sounds a little soupy here, but I think it really adds to the song if you can understand that.
  • The dyes are in the form of a suspension of particles which, for reasons not fully understood, are adsorbed onto the surface of ligno-cellulosic fibres such as sisal, abaca and fique. Chapter 8
  • The main superstructure frame is formed from reinforced concrete with post-tensioned, ribbed slab floors.
  • An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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