How to Use stranger in a Sentence

stranger

1 of 2 noun

• I'm a stranger to the area.
• He is a complete stranger to me.
• Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
• Waves spun them around the cove as the stranger clung to Badet’s board.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• This is the first time in my life that strangers have looked at me naked.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• It’s been a bunch of strangers under one roof singing the same song.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2023
• One day, the stranger asks why Wang never puts up much of a fight.
  — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• By now she was used to sleeping in rooms with strangers.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• But the family of Morales said Bryant was a stranger to them.
  — al, 23 Feb. 2023
• Linger, drink more wine, and share stories with strangers.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2023
• The stranger knocked on her window and asked if the payphone was working.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the fall of 2022, Ashley was raped by a stranger in the yard outside her home, her mother says.
  — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Some people are deeply close to theirs, but others see them as strangers.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Showing kindness to a stranger is central to the Muslim faith.
  — John Blake, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• To be this strong, to be able to still piss off complete strangers just by existing.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• However, when strangers walk into the house, her cat hides.
  — Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Patrick Vacarella, Bollinger said, never met a stranger.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• In response, the program teaches children that strangers come in all forms.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The two aren't strangers to spending holidays as a pair and giving fans behind-the-scenes looks.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 1 Jan. 2024
• Somehow, strangers seem to know about your personal life.
  — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• 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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stranger

2 of 2 adjective

• The timing of the event for Burgess could not have been stranger.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• The world, strange in the first place, is often made stranger by our minds.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Bourne’s lack of usage is one of the stranger story lines.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• The song-making of Squid grew ever stranger with Carey in tow.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
• Here’s a rare case where maybe stranger things haven’t happened.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Dec. 2022
• 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
• If that feels rather on-the-beak, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
• That description might sound strange, but the film is even stranger.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Stay up all night to watch stranger things finale and Netflix crashed.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 July 2022
• There could never be a stranger time for Guy Raz to release his new book.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• 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
• These days truth seems to be getting much stranger than fiction.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• As Herbert readers know, the world of Dune gets stranger with every book.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• The timing of the Top Gun: Maverick sequel couldn’t be stranger.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 May 2022
• 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
• As the shapes of their lives changed — got harder, got stranger — their friendship strengthened.
  — Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 5 Oct. 2020
• What Felix will steal from her, across two years and 272 pages, is stranger and spongier.
  — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Then again, in Rita’s life stranger things have happened.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 27 Apr. 2022
• At that moment, a would-be stranger feels more like a kindred spirit.
  — Kwasi Boadi, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
• There is one scenario that would make for a stranger end to an already bizarre season.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• But the photos continued to show up in his mailbox, and things grew stranger.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
• Is there a city in the United States with a stranger pronunciation, in light of the spelling?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2022
• The old expression that comes to mind is sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• In a truth is stranger than fiction plot twist, yet another death.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• There also was a change in philosophy for one of the more stranger concepts.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• Probably not, but as the last 24 hours has shown, stranger things have happened in soccer.
  — Robert Kidd, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024