Example Sentences

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By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

These are not cognitively estranging phenomena in the manner of cyberspace, for instance, the technical workings of which most of us simply don’t understand.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2019

She last had that estranging experience watching herself on screen when she made The Hours, channelling Virginia Woolf, and watching the world from behind a prosthetic nose.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018

They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2018

Although an infant is the real, nay, the only bond of married life, still, the child of sin is a spectre ever rising 'twixt husband and wife, estranging them from one another for ever.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.