Thesaurus / estrangement
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
For income, Lala braids hair along the beach, estranged from Wilma, who has sniffed the corruption on Adan and turned her face away.
‘HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE,’ BY CHERIE JONES, IS A STUNNING DEBUTHAMILTON CAINFEBRUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Absolute estrangement had followed the birth of their child nearly twenty years ago.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
Though Castiglione thus brought him fresh honours, it nearly caused an estrangement between him and his chief.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
Marmont indignantly refused to go in such a capacity, and a permanent estrangement nearly took place.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
These discussions ended in an estrangement, for some time, between the two cronies.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHE
There was a scene, however, which particularly marked the moment when in the life of this husband and wife estrangement began.
JUANAHONORE DE BALZAC
Her state was bliss; and yet, through it all she had a sense of estrangement from herself, and of things closing round her.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIR
As they approached the house where he and Laura lived she had an increasing sense of estrangement from him and of distance.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIR
The world was almost too gray, too grim, too horrible for Houston even to remember that there was an estrangement between them.
THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPER
And that insufficient colloquy was the beginning of a prolonged estrangement between us.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
WORDS RELATED TO ESTRANGEMENT
- break
- dedomiciling
- departure
- detachment
- dialysis
- disconnection
- disengagement
- disjunction
- disrelation
- dissociation
- dissolution
- disunion
- division
- divorce
- divorcement
- embarkation
- estrangement
- farewell
- gap
- leave-taking
- parting
- parting of the ways
- partition
- pffft
- rift
- rupture
- segregation
- severance
- split
- split-up
- abhorrence
- aggression
- animosity
- animus
- antipathy
- aversion
- bad blood
- bellicoseness
- bellicosity
- belligerency
- bitterness
- combativeness
- contentiousness
- detestation
- disaffection
- enmity
- estrangement
- grudge
- hatred
- hostility
- ill will
- inimicality
- malevolence
- malice
- militance
- militancy
- opposition
- pugnaciousness
- pugnacity
- rancor
- resentment
- spite
- spleen
- truculency
- unfriendliness
- venom
- virulence
- war
- warpath
- abhorrence
- aggression
- animosity
- animus
- antipathy
- aversion
- bad blood
- bellicoseness
- bellicosity
- belligerency
- bitterness
- combativeness
- contentiousness
- detestation
- disaffection
- enmity
- estrangement
- grudge
- hatred
- hostility
- ill will
- inimicality
- malevolence
- malice
- militance
- militancy
- opposition
- pugnaciousness
- pugnacity
- rancor
- resentment
- spite
- spleen
- truculence
- unfriendliness
- venom
- virulence
- war
- warpath
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