Thesaurus / estrangement

estrangement

How to use estrangement in a sentence

You have taken your disappointment and magnified it into a blooming estrangement.

In other words, you proceed in such a manner that puts the responsibility for their next familial estrangement precisely where it belongs.

For income, Lala braids hair along the beach, estranged from Wilma, who has sniffed the corruption on Adan and turned her face away.

As you've noted, often these estrangements carry on through generations.

That not only includes you in any further estrangement he chooses, but also increases the likelihood he’ll choose it.

Absolute estrangement had followed the birth of their child nearly twenty years ago.

Though Castiglione thus brought him fresh honours, it nearly caused an estrangement between him and his chief.

Marmont indignantly refused to go in such a capacity, and a permanent estrangement nearly took place.

These discussions ended in an estrangement, for some time, between the two cronies.

There was a scene, however, which particularly marked the moment when in the life of this husband and wife estrangement began.

JUANAHONORE DE BALZAC

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985