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US
/ˈstɹeɪndʒɝ/
]
[ UK /stɹˈeɪndʒɐ/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈeɪndʒɐ/ ]
NOUN
- an individual that one is not acquainted with
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
How To Use stranger In A Sentence
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face. The Hidden Places
- But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
- Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction. The New Jerusalem
- The dog barked loudly at the stranger.
- This time she must seem the forlorn victim, with no resources of sinew or cunning to save her - only the kindness of strangers.
- These types of changes were normally seen between complete strangers in blood, and were not usually used to indicate any form of cadency.
- Meanwhile, I will be having a final farewell party this Friday with all my buddies, climbing friends, old coworkers, old classmates and random strangers.
- The attention shone on her, as strangers stopped her in the street to ask about her imminent arrival. Times, Sunday Times
- The second set also starts of in a rollicky jamming way with a Stranger and a Cumberland to write home about, but then the band slows down and you get a sleepy Gloria and a communally weird Do It In The Road where "everyone" sings. Bt.etree.org