How to Use stranger in a Sentence
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Waves spun them around the cove as the stranger clung to Badet’s board.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
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This is the first time in my life that strangers have looked at me naked.
—Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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It’s been a bunch of strangers under one roof singing the same song.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2023
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One day, the stranger asks why Wang never puts up much of a fight.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
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By now she was used to sleeping in rooms with strangers.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
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But the family of Morales said Bryant was a stranger to them.
—al, 23 Feb. 2023
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Linger, drink more wine, and share stories with strangers.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
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The stranger knocked on her window and asked if the payphone was working.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Aug. 2023
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At the heart of it all were the dancers, the women who stripped in front of crowds and who would grind on strangers’ laps for money.
—John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
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Trust in the kindness of strangers Throughout my ride, and in life, the kindness of strangers is a constant.
—Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2024
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The idea was to provide a place for the players and their wives to let loose with no cameras or strangers.
—cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
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In the fall of 2022, Ashley was raped by a stranger in the yard outside her home, her mother says.
—Time, 14 Aug. 2023
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At the age of 96, Wally was still the disappointed child, whose dad was a stranger to him.
—Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
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Some people are deeply close to theirs, but others see them as strangers.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
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When a crowd of party-goers squeezes by us, my cheek nearly grazes the ass cheek of a stranger in a thong.
—Cassidy George, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
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Showing kindness to a stranger is central to the Muslim faith.
—John Blake, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
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To be this strong, to be able to still piss off complete strangers just by existing.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2023
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After the last bullet was fired, the man, who had pointed a gun at strangers earlier in the da ...
—David Aaro, ajc, 11 July 2023
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Even strangers on the street wanted to know more about Rivian or comment on how good the truck looked.
—Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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However, when strangers walk into the house, her cat hides.
—Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
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That’s when a stranger jumped in the driver’s seat — with the keys and Lingle’s wallet inside — and drove off with their 1-month-old son, Reece.
—oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2023
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Patrick Vacarella, Bollinger said, never met a stranger.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023
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In response, the program teaches children that strangers come in all forms.
—David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
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The stranger then began his verbal barrage and tore off part of the rabbi’s clothing.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
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The two aren't strangers to spending holidays as a pair and giving fans behind-the-scenes looks.
—Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 1 Jan. 2024
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Light Shop follows a group of strangers, each struggling to come to terms with a traumatic event in their past.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
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When was the last time LeBron James was out in public without a stranger’s cell phone taking it all in?
—The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2023
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Moments later, the suspect can be seen hurling the flaming cans at a group of strangers on the platform.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
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Somehow, strangers seem to know about your personal life.
—Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2024
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But her close pal Eden (Glazer) is in a very different stage of her life — one that involves late-night drinking and hooking up with handsome strangers.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
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The timing of the event for Burgess could not have been stranger.
—Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
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The world, strange in the first place, is often made stranger by our minds.
—Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
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Bourne’s lack of usage is one of the stranger story lines.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
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The song-making of Squid grew ever stranger with Carey in tow.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
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Here’s a rare case where maybe stranger things haven’t happened.
—Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Dec. 2022
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Like opening the bathroom door in a bar to a stranger rag-dolled on the toilet, her face closed for the night.
—Jiordan Castle, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
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If that feels rather on-the-beak, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
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That description might sound strange, but the film is even stranger.
—Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
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In a stranger turn of events, though, the number of SATA 3.0 ports has been reduced, as well.
—Michael Sexton, PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2022
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Stay up all night to watch stranger things finale and Netflix crashed.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 July 2022
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There could never be a stranger time for Guy Raz to release his new book.
—Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2020
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One of the stranger things to have happened in pop culture this year was Doja Cat‘s feud with Noah Schnapp.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 July 2022
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These days truth seems to be getting much stranger than fiction.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
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As Herbert readers know, the world of Dune gets stranger with every book.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2021
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The timing of the Top Gun: Maverick sequel couldn’t be stranger.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 May 2022
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In that same vein, the map is littered with references to some of the stranger corners of the internet.
—Will Pritchard, Wired, 13 Nov. 2021
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As the shapes of their lives changed — got harder, got stranger — their friendship strengthened.
—Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 5 Oct. 2020
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What Felix will steal from her, across two years and 272 pages, is stranger and spongier.
—Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
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The Dodgers are two back with three to play and face a tougher opponent than the Giants, but stranger things have happened.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
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Then again, in Rita’s life stranger things have happened.
—James McAuley, Town & Country, 27 Apr. 2022
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At that moment, a would-be stranger feels more like a kindred spirit.
—Kwasi Boadi, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
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There is one scenario that would make for a stranger end to an already bizarre season.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
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But the photos continued to show up in his mailbox, and things grew stranger.
—Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
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Is there a city in the United States with a stranger pronunciation, in light of the spelling?
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2022
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The old expression that comes to mind is sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
—Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2022
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In a truth is stranger than fiction plot twist, yet another death.
—Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
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Things took a stranger turn when the judge turned his attention to Josh Edwards, who did appear in the courtroom.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2022
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While stranger things have happened, Jansen is unlikely to still be the team’s closer then.
—Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
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There also was a change in philosophy for one of the more stranger concepts.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2021
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Probably not, but as the last 24 hours has shown, stranger things have happened in soccer.
—Robert Kidd, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
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