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

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

In his color work, he sometimes accepted ambient blurs of motion to emphasize, and estrange, the stillness of a certain subject amid a street’s commotion.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

Thank goodness they’re not living with you anymore, and you don’t want to have a falling out that would estrange you from your nephew.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2015

If I revert to my devotion to you, it is to prove that no worldly motives could estrange me from the partner of my miseries.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas