estrange

Example Sentences

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"Children who choose to estrange themselves aren't making a little decision on a whim," explained Joshua Stein, a researcher who tracks online trends, especially those that intersect with psychology and bioethics.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2024

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022

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

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

Of what advantage to mamma, or to us, would the good qualities of Sir Gilbert he, if it be his will, as it evidently is, to estrange himself from us?

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs