estrange

Example Sentences

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García's film is about fathers and sons, and it certainly tackles the thorniness that can estrange children and their parents.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2022

Another reason I spend more time advising those who estrange vs. those who have been estranged?

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022

I would be extremely surprised if your weird in-laws decide to permanently estrange themselves from your granddaughter over this, but odder things have happened.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2019

Hval’s aim seems not to offend but to estrange, creating distance between herself and the listener; her narrators are unreliable but fascinating.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 15, 2015

Pleust � Dieu qu'elle n'eust iamais est� rompu�, nous ne souffririons pas � present les calamitez qui nous font gemir et donneront vn estrange empeschement � la conuersion de ces peuples.

From History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life by Butterfield, Consul Willshire