Below you will find example sentences with "former president". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Former President in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: president
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 25
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 33.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 12 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "former president" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 33.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as addo and former president mahama attended, agarwal 37 former president and brad, biden, clinton and obama stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with vice president, president buhari, senate president, vice president, president donald and president joe, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with former president
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Former President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Joe Biden were expected to give eulogies. (20 words)
Fearful of antagonizing the former president, congressional Republicans downplayed the remarks, instead lauding the former president’s record and criticizing President Biden. (22 words)
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was plotting to kill him. (27 words)
The former president elevated a post that falsely claimed Haley wasn’t eligible to be president because her parents weren’t citizens when she was born in South Carolina, echoing the birther smears he had once leveled against former President Barack Obama. (42 words)
The former president of the South Bend, Indiana, Common Council on Friday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, and criticized South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg as the city’s mayor faces more questions about his appeal to black voters. (41 words)
Both President Akufo-Addo and former President Mahama attended the programme as invited guests at the maiden edition of the Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum with the President as the Guest Speaker and the Former President, a panel member. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The video also reportedly showed the president attacking prominent Democrats including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and Reps.
Former President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Joe Biden were expected to give eulogies.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, and Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, have expressed shock to the passage of the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
Both President Akufo-Addo and former President Mahama attended the programme as invited guests at the maiden edition of the Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum with the President as the Guest Speaker and the Former President, a panel member.
Two former ministers of former President and presidential hopeful Ricardo Martinelli were sentenced to prison for corruption and money laundering, in a case that also splashes two of the former president’s sons.
Biden 'looked frail' during Miami debate, Obama's former doctor saysA doctor who served former President Obama for more than 20 years before his presidency said this week he thought former Vice President Joe Biden "looked frail".
Broaddrick, who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault in 1978, has been an ally of former President Trump since Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2016.
Fearful of antagonizing the former president, congressional Republicans downplayed the remarks, instead lauding the former president’s record and criticizing President Biden.
The former president elevated a post that falsely claimed Haley wasn’t eligible to be president because her parents weren’t citizens when she was born in South Carolina, echoing the birther smears he had once leveled against former President Barack Obama.
The former president of the South Bend, Indiana, Common Council on Friday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, and criticized South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg as the city’s mayor faces more questions about his appeal to black voters.
President Mnangagwa briefed President Nyusi, former Presidents Chissano and Guebuza on the political situation in Zimbabwe revealing that former President Mugabe is safe and his legacy is being preserved.
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was plotting to kill him.
Rishi Shah, 37, co-founder and former CEO, Shradha Agarwal, 37, former president, and Brad Purdy, 33, former chief operating officer, were convicted of defrauding Outcome Health's lenders and investors.
The idea for a regional economic conversation on the WEF model was first articulated in 1998 by former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, Fidel Ramos, the former president of the Philippines, and Bob Hawke, former prime minister of Australia.
Others are: former President of the Senate, David Mark, former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmad Makarfi, former Governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna as well as all the PDP governorship candidates from the seven States in the zone.
For example, former President George W. Bush ( -TX) and Laura Bush are United Methodists, as are Senator Elizabeth Warren ( -MA), former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former Senator Max Cleland (D-GA).
Ex-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and former Minister Carlos Bruce —who currently serves as Mayor of Surco district in Lima— will be summoned to testify in the current trial of former President Alejandro Toledo, it was announced on Wednesday.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused the Justice Department on Sunday of a double standard when it came to the mishandling of classified documents by President Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trump launched a new attack on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after the governor took a thinly veiled shot at the former president for allegedly paying off an adult film star to keep quiet about an alleged affair.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the United Kingdom court that found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking.