estrange

Example Sentences

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Novey transports us toward two reckonings: what exactly happened to estrange the women and, later, how Leah will respond to Jean’s legacy of sculptures.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

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

There are some who would like to estrange this swath of the country even further from Australia’s coastal population centers.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2014

The immutable fact of their friendship accommodates conflict that could fracture a marriage or estrange a parent.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 4, 2014

Yet I still trust you; what you did could not estrange me.

From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von