Stranger

//ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)//

"Stranger" in a Sentence (26 examples)

Poverty is a stranger to industry.

When Mary was spoken to by a stranger, she was at a loss for words.

I was a stranger in Boston.

How did a total stranger know his name?

Opening the door, I found a stranger standing there.

I doubled up with a stranger that night.

Having lived in the town, I'm not a stranger there.

The stranger was too surprised to speak.

The man was a total stranger.

Let's talk about what to do with the stranger.

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Truth is stranger than fiction.

That gentleman is a stranger to me.

Children are taught not to talk to strangers.

In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

Our love (our love, our love) / Our love is in danger (danger) / And if you don't hurry home / I might give it to a stranger

I am a most poor woman and a stranger, / Born out of your dominions.

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.

I like to be a stranger myself—it was my destiny; but I wish to be the only stranger.

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

The first thing that strikes the stranger is the sharpness of the curves on the metre gauge; it is not unusual for a long train to be travelling in three directions at once, and the engine is frequently in full view of the windows of the ninth or tenth carriage.

Wearing number 66 for his club side, Alexander-Arnold is no stranger to an unusual shirt number. Regardless, the sight of the right-back wearing 10 in central midfield for England was guaranteed to catch the eye.

Hello, stranger!

To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger.

Actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title.

[Judge Beverly] Davis then granted the adoption to the new wife of the boy's father; this action designated the boy's natural mother a "legal stranger," terminating all rights the mother had to visit her child.

Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath

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