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.

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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
The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
Army, 'the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to' jangle 'among themselves. A Book of Quaker Saints
The Sub – Prior readily obeyed the first part of the Abbot’s injunction, but paused upon the second — “It is Friday, most reverend,” he said in Latin, desirous that the hint should escape, if possible, the ears of the stranger. The Monastery
Of course everyone knew the reason for all the strangers - those faked tickets someone had distributed. DEATH IN FASHION
He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend.
He is a perfect stranger to us.
Her expression collapsed into one of forlorn reminiscence before she continued on in her stranger’s voice. Flowers in the Attic
E-mail also is an important way that the Net connects strangers who share personal passions.
Cats were slumbering noisily beneath the TV set and a smallish party of utter strangers were drinking Harp in the saloon lounge. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Thereupon Shawahi came forward and kissing the ground before the Queen, took the hem of her garment and laid it on her head, saying, O Queen, by my claim for fosterage, be not hasty with him, more by token of thy knowledge that this poor wretch is a stranger, who hath adventured himself and suffered what none ever suffered before him, and Allah (to whom belong Might and The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
What better way to break the ice with a roomful of total strangers in a foreign country whose language you don't know?
She was always suspicious of strangers.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect.
He is supposed to be debating to you and to fellow members of Parliament, and he should not involve strangers.
He has endeavoured to render THE PICTURE an intelligent _Cicerone_, without being too garrulous or grandiloquous, -- but always attentive to the stranger, leading him to every remarkable object, and giving just as much description of each, as would be acceptable to persons enjoying the full use of their eyes. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the
Online gaming is the main route for bonding with strangers, the survey of 17,000 schoolkids found. The Sun
Officers are expected to give her toxicology tests amid fears she may have been drugged by a stranger. The Sun
This must have been owing to her recollection of the audacious stranger in the neighbouring turret at the Fleur de Lys; but did that discomposure express displeasure? Quentin Durward
The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers. The Baronet's Bride
Beth felt strangely drawn to this gentle stranger.
Hospitality - caritas - became a duty for all Christians, whether the one to whom aid was proffered or from whom it was received was a family or tribal member, or a stranger.
This is all on the surface, but beneath and better than this is a kindness which leaves no stranger to a sense of loneliness, no want uncared for, and no sorrow unalleviated. The Hawaiian Archipelago
You could go up to a stranger and know they were on the same wavelength.
Protagoras (337 C-D); it is only “nomos, which is a tyrant among men,” that has made the participants in the dialogue strangers to one another, since they come from different cities. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Fien is no stranger to Tormey, who recruited him when he was defensive coordinator at Washington.
This is a realistic story about two people who meet as strangers and remain that way, told with an elegant, refined grace.
Social parasites and criminals are strangers to positive beliefs. Their religion is: to do anything to serve their needs. Dr T.P.Chia
Ne vous fachez iamais en table, quoy qu'il aduienne, ou bien si vous vous fachez, n'ent faites point de semblant, principalement y ayant des estrangers a table. George Washington's Rules of Civility
I just can't have a stranger roaming around my property at night.
The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
Accepting drugs from a stranger in an unfamiliar place is very risky. The Sun
he was upstage with strangers
_The comedy of Wilmot successful: The wounded stranger seen at a distance: Oratory abandoned with regret: The dangers that attend being honest: A new invitation from Hector: A journey deferred by an arrest, and another accidental sight of the stranger_ The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
To her annoyance the stranger did not go away.
Users can put in place screen locks and other security mechanisms to stop strangers accessing personal devices. Times, Sunday Times
Cars are comfortable, avoid dangerous road crossings, avoid the danger of strangers and - not insignificantly in Scotland - they avoid the rain.
I am walking speedily along New York's Fifth Avenue when this elegant stranger accosts me, grabs my arm in a vice-like grip and hisses, ‘Where did you get that pin?’
For the most part we are strangers sharing rooms.
Her eccentricities get stranger by the day.
She's shy around strangers.
The stranger fastened on my arm.
Although I wasn't in the habit of talking to strangers, he didn't seem sketchy, so I walked over to the car and bent down to get to his eye level.
The locals clearly were not too keen to strangers and I received a less than hospitable welcome.
Five students in a remote house are attacked by supernatural forces, but discover that something far stranger is at work. The Sun
The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
I have read that stranger abductions are actually on the decline in the past couple of years.
When offering his terms Starkey had talked in that bland way characteristic of him with strangers. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
On France: I was a Francophobe before Francophobia was cool, but I actually had a splendid few days in France, surrounded by helpful strangers who were entirely accommodating to my recollection of 2 years of French, taken 15 years previous. Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman
Most of the women were college graduates, thought highly of Smith, and were pleased that this stranger was so smart.
Had a well-meaning stranger taken him into a family home, beseeching him to rest on a red ottoman ? SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
He took stock of the stranger.
Beth has already met Arleen Starr, who spoke with her prior to sending her off for another set of tests, but the doctor is still a stranger who makes Beth shrink into herself with shyness.
Her beautiful hands held a cup to the lips of the stranger; while her long hair, escaped from its bands, fell in jetty ringlets, and mingled with his silver locks. The Scottish Chiefs
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain
As Mark Twain once said, " Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction?
White Fang does not make an uproar, but rather follows quietly, stalking the stranger.
Mr Quinn, whose businesses include insurance and investment, is no stranger to big deals.
By the time he died this week, it felt like he was a total stranger. The Sun
She's dreaming she'll be whisked off her feet by a tall, dark handsome stranger.
The deacon found and served Christ in the poor, the hungry and thirsty, the stranger and the naked, the sick and imprisoned.
He is no stranger to property.
But Arsheesh knew by the gold on the stranger's bare arm that he was a Tarkaan or great lord, and he bowed kneeling before him till his beard touched the earth and made signs to Shasta to kneel also.
The stranger wandered off the road into the forest.
He watched the stranger flirt with his girlfriend and got fighting mad.
“A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among — Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery! then I fear you are equally a stranger to the more modern names of Gibson and Bartlett?” Rob Roy
The next to be loved is the stranger, the orphan, the widow and the indigent, that is to say those citizens that are without a “defender”. Archive 2008-10-26
The word Xenon comes from the Greek word xenon which means stranger it was discovered by Sir William Ramsay in 1898. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
The paradox is all the stranger because the power shortage has had predictably grave consequences for economic growth.
In the first episode a shocking, random act of violence sees a young woman knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack by a stranger. The Sun
The girl drew from her pocket a little green-leather sheath, worn at the edges to whity-brown, and out of that a pair of spectacles, unconsciously looking round the room for a moment as she did so, as if to ensure that no stranger saw her in the act of using them. The Hand of Ethelberta
I feel strange seeing Annique so comparatively unclothed, and even stranger as we lie side by side sunbathing. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Annie Wagner in the Stranger: As a movie, Diggers is affable and lazy - its purpose obscured by a swarm of clichés. GreenCine Daily: Diggers.
Human beings often have an inbred dislike of the stranger.
The disposal of the clan land to strangers without the consent of the clansmen is subject to the fiat that any other clan member can redeem that clan land on payment of the purchase price to the purchaser.
By singling out the single family home as a conveyor of individual wealth we have inflated its value as a social connector when in fact it is a social disconnector - separating the physical distance between strangers, alienating the wealth class from the poor, and creating "neighborhoods" that enforce stereotypes and social clichés. Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed
Your description reminded me a teensy bit of the Anne Perry book “Face of a Stranger,” which is of course nothing like the McGrath book in subject, but has a similar theme of the main character haunted by a past just out of his line of sight. Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room
They paid heavy taxes, but they were called Uitlanders, which means, "outlanders" or "strangers. An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls
Berlin modernism, meanwhile, was an altogether different and surely stranger brew.
He's too shy to ask a stranger the time, much less speak to a room full of people.
She is a stranger to us.
No wonder he remained to be a stranger to everyone else for no one dared or risked taking a step into such a place filled with horrors and terrors that only the Shadow Assailant knew of.
The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners. The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
Officers are expected to give her toxicology tests amid fears she may have been drugged by a stranger. The Sun
The shine is being taken out of Ulverston because of dirty streets cleaned by street sweepers who have become strangers to brooms, the town council agreed this week, reports Jennie Dennett.
The cobaltic folk may be indigenes, but I think they come from still a third place, and are strangers on these shores as well. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
With the human who loves quarrels, speaks in the heart with the stranger the speech.
Berlin modernism, meanwhile, was an altogether different and surely stranger brew.
The mysterious stranger took his departure; Laura Lipping distinctly saw a snarl of baffled rage reveal itself behind his heavy moustache and upturned astrachan collar. Literature
The Strangers House is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass; some of a kind of cambric oiled. The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29
I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners. Archive 2007-09-01
a small deckhouse, holding on by ropes, and in feebleness welcoming the stranger with hats in hand. The Diadem Rescuing the Crew of the C. W. Connor
He rubbed warmth into his arms, peering through the fog to see if he could spot the stranger.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The room was changed so completely that it was suddenly unfamiliar to her, as if she had walked into the bouse of a stranger. The Hand of Chaos
He is a stranger to London.
Then again, I sent a stranger a fake story in order to get him to call and ask me out on a date.
They perceived a stranger wandering in the garden.
Her fans can see how she has managed it in Braveworld's September 28 rental video release Family of Strangers.
Such philosophers, who teach estrangement in every sense, are still strangers to one another.
The discipline of the school was hard, not with the healthy and natural hardships of life in the open air, but with an artificial Spartanism, for it was the time when the Germans, who had suddenly awoke to feelings of patriotism and a love of war to which they had long been strangers, under the influence of a few writers, were throwing all their energies into the cultivation of physical endurance. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
She married a practical stranger.
Jigsaw has locked a bunch of strangers in a spooky old house with nerve gas slowly killing them off.
Stranger things have happened - good luck! The Sun
Moreover, Zonabend states that the last-born of many siblings - starting with a seventh child in the actual case she provides - are not to have ordinary godparents and, therefore, strangers are often accepted for the task.
a stranger suld lack what we have, though we are jimply provided for in beds rather; for Jenny has sae mony bairns (God bless them and her) that troth I maun speak to Lord Evandale to gie us a bit eik, or outshot Old Mortality
They nodded to each other by way of breaking the ice of unacquaintance, and the first stranger handed his neighbour the family mug — a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge worn away like a threshold by the rub of whole generations of thirsty lips that had gone the way of all flesh, and bearing the following inscription burnt upon its rotund side in yellow letters there is no fun Wessex Tales
Logan's military assignments made him naturally suspicious of strangers who questioned him, but Marie was different.
And they know it's your car because they know you and they know you because your street is a cul-de-sac and strangers have little reason to walk through it.
She prattled the secret to the stranger.
It was the 11 th of the season for a man who is no stranger to the referee's book.
Chairs creaked, and necks craned as every eye tried to catch a glimpse of the stranger.
She gave the stranger a wooden stare.
Those times were somewhat wild and barbarous, signore, and a gentleman who protected his estates and asked tribute of strangers was termed a brigand, and became highly respected. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
Some people considered this stranger to be a devil changed into the illusion of an angel of light, or a witch.
It is a country where acquaintances embrace when meeting and strangers are greeted with warmth, bonhomie, and a demitasse of rich coffee.
Christ, a stranger to all religious practices, and breathing defiance against "sacerdotalism" and "theocracy". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The six-year-old, no stranger to success on this course, ran a fine race to finish third here on Monday.
He was a total and complete stranger. Times, Sunday Times
Which is to say: the nosier neighbors, not strangers. Making Light: Open thread 135
For you, I have only to remember the identity of strangers.
With the human who loves quarrels, speaks in the heart with the stranger the speech.
Her eyes fell on a stranger, staring at her in a cool impertinent way.
Such ambivalent cultures invariably breed an extraordinary sense of personal dignidad (deeg-nee-DAHD) or "dignity," and an unbounded need for this dignity to be respected, regardless of the cost to the individual, family members, friends or strangers. I would like to know about "The Culture"
Simply seeing white strangers interacting positively with ethnic minorities reduces racial prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
And there are stranger things than these, -- fragments of spiced and bituminized humanity to be shown to visitors who are not nervous, nor given to midnight terrors. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
"You will meet a tall, dark, handsome stranger this Thursday," says your astrologer.
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
I am a stranger , and have been a wanderer against my will.
He was no stranger to hardship brim of his hat. Times, Sunday Times
The workers were too stunned to react on seeing complete strangers entering their area.
They got on well together although they were total strangers.
I don't know, sir," he said, "whether you're aware of it -- I presume you're a stranger, like myself -- but all they _allow_ for what they call breakfast in this hotel is tea or coffee, rolls, and butter; everything else is charged extra. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
Since it is a mitzvah to visit the sick, every traditional Jewish community has a group that makes hospital visits on request - to friends or strangers.
They've stood in long lines to get on commuter trains, they have crowded on to ferries, they've carpooled with strangers.
Many complained about people who take untrained, ill-behaved animals to public events as well as about people who chuckle a little embarrassed but nothing more when their dogs lunge at people while on walks or leap up on strangers and do that "if it's vertical I'll try to breed with it" behavior against everyone's legs. Pet Talk: Some people hate dogs, in no uncertain terms
When women marry they often move over long distances into households where they are strangers.
All patients can do is trust that the strangers on their health care team are competent and caring enough to do their best to help correct whatever ails the patient.
Some were kind of grabby, and some were just clearly eager to get married so their toilets were cleaned more often, and came across as impatient with this whole dating process (especially since I'm sure they absorbed the cultural message that a woman is flattered by having a perfect stranger want to get you in a white dress quickly). Feminist blogs
Seriously, folks, I was beside myself with nerves, and I ain't a stranger to a cuss at the best of times.
No, my real issue with them is that I am tired of getting inadvertently mooned by complete strangers.
It's also one of its most appealingly credible aspects, as is the gritty atmosphere: the subway scenes with their up-close-and-personal contacts with strangers, the cramped tenement that's home to one of the girls. The Rich, the Bad, the Vengeful
The author and the fisherman were strangers, for the author would not want his identity known if the letter was later opened and read by the fisherman, or if the mailer was eventually found.
I thought about meeting a handsome stranger but it seemed a bit of a long shot.
Did he accept a lift from strangers and come to harm? The Sun
I had one reader who told me he was reading it outside one day when a ned came up to him -- "ned" being Scots for ... um ... think as disenfranchised as you can get -- the juvenile delinquents from our equivalent of the projects, shell-suited gangs into Buckfast and hard drugs, petty theft and hassling strangers, the type of person that is to your average SF/Fantasy reader as a hyena is to a gazelle. More Aesthetics
She's afraid of strangers.
Better were men, strangers, unkissed, undressed, and handled with emotion left in the discarded clothes. Bi « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts
Like an avenging angel, the stranger forces the menfolk to confront their own inadequacies.
I am seriously considering printing up some little cards to hand out before the start of those conversations with complete strangers you end up getting sucked into while out and about with a newborn.
Hadji Baba, had described the manners and vices of the Eastern nations, not only with fidelity, but with the humour of Le Sage and the ludicrous power of Fielding himself, one who was a perfect stranger to the subject must necessarily produce an unfavourable contrast. The Talisman
Stranger still, this particular exhibit is presented without a trace of irony.
‘If you wish to speak more, Lady, I will wait for you by the wall after moonrise,’ the stranger's soft voice penetrated her thoughts.
But if a stranger or metic smite one who is older by twenty years or more, the same law shall hold about the bystanders assisting, and he who is found guilty in such a suit, if he be a stranger but not resident, shall be imprisoned during a period of two years; and a metic who disobeys the laws shall be imprisoned for three years, unless the court assign him a longer term. Laws
We're no strangers to the tactical alteration of addresses on home turf. Times, Sunday Times
Times of greeting and sharing in a public context, especially with strangers or distant acquaintances, are unnatural and sometimes painfully uncomfortable. Christianity Today
Her parents love was one of the reasons she had not been married off at some young age to a wealthy, influential stranger.
Sure enough, as Jesus taught, when I answered vileness with kindness the stranger did part from my coopery as my friend instead of my enemy, and with a wiser eye about the workings of the Lord among men. Alvin Journeyman
STRANGER: There did really happen, and will again happen, like many other events of which ancient tradition has preserved the record, the portent which is traditionally said to have occurred in the quarrel of Atreus and Thyestes. The Statesman
Many bodachs are abroad, and shadowing a new stranger in town called Bob Robertson.
Each mountain, as if its firm and immutable form were flexible and varying, altered in appearance, like that of a shadowy apparition, as the position of the strangers relative to them changed with their motions, and as the mist, which continued slowly though constantly to descend, influenced the rugged as pect of the hilts and valleys which it shrouded with its vapory mantle. Anne of Geierstein
Earlier this week a child only 17 hours old was removed from his cot and exposed to a crowd of inquisitive strangers, for no other reason than to oblige his father, a struggling politician.
Your Reverence, the syndic is a stranger; perhaps he has not heard of the blind. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
Strangers to the village are looked upon with a mixture of fear and suspicion.
Surfer was the comically subversive tale of a group of ski bums (the Slackers) visited by a mysterious stranger who skis magically and imparts mystical knowledge.
Her legs splayed inelegantly and with her mouth wide and dry with fear, she stared up at the stranger.
He had been seated a little to one side, in a tigery kind of relaxed alert - ness-a stranger to me, dark and lean, with a blaster that had seen considerable service at his hip. Trader To The Stars
But it isn't just the nuts and bolts of touring in support of a new album that can be so beleaguering: sometimes it's the talking about it on the phone with strangers.
At this moment, the stranger who had put the coachman and groom right about the word valetudinarian, rose from the seat he had occupied in the corner of the room, and uttering a deep, hollow groan, walked towards the door. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
When a stranger calls, no rules of social comportment apply beyond whatever passes for civility from one man to the next.
One day , a mysterious stranger called at the house.
Instantly classified as a demon, the stranger is harried, persecuted and all but executed by the superstitious islanders.
The defects which Maty insinuates, “Ces traits saillans, ces figures hardies, ce sacrifice de la regle au sentiment, et de la cadence a la force,” are the faults of the youth, rather than of the stranger: and after the long and laborious exercise of my own language, I am conscious that my French style has been ripened and improved. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
‘Hey stranger,’ his voice was husky and I shivered slightly.
Let's remember that this isn't a random stranger grilling yous on the street or that the interviewee is under any obligation to answer. Avoid Tipping Your Hand In Salary Negotiations | Lifehacker Australia
But sitting motionless for 35 minutes encouraged complete strangers to talk! Times, Sunday Times
This unnatural act unhinged a stranger sitting next to me who looked on in amazement as he passed the same bus stop he had stood at five minutes previously.
Are people we sort-of know, who are used to being on camera, inherently less interesting to watch and talk about than a bunch of total strangers?
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
Simply seeing white strangers interacting positively with ethnic minorities reduces racial prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
Exclamation marks suggest a certain unflattering ingratiation, especially in letters written to strangers.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. Lord Byron
Beside the vault of his ancestors stood two strangers. Times, Sunday Times
A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
But please, please try not to pass your friends 'email addresses to strangers - put people's addresses' bcc 'and, before forwarding, delete any addresses that shouldn't be seen. Nouslife
We were asking people to do something quite radically different - to trust strangers with their money. Times, Sunday Times
The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned.
The gimmick lets you send a stranger you fancy a drink, via buttons on the seatback entertainment system. Times, Sunday Times
Huh? Let's see here - I'm walking along, minding my own business, through a world in which armed gangs of oakies are occasionally trying to gnaw my arm off, when without warning, some stranger shoots me in the leg with an arrow. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Find some other way to convey that this was not a case of murder by strangers.

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