foreigner

Example Sentences

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This may have been because he was a foreigner, or a calculating businessman, but Ms. Goldring makes the case that it was Holbein’s irreplaceable artistic prowess that kept him in the king’s good graces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

A university student said he felt like a "foreigner" after losing his ability to speak Welsh following a car crash.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

They also cast him as a foreigner, despite him being from Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory and makes him a U.S. citizen since birth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

But Tricia, 75, whose family has lived there for generations, told AFP: "You feel like a foreigner in your own town."

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

He was unforgivably a foreigner then, foreign to them, foreign to me, foreign to everyone but Mama, who sat next to him smiling with pleased modesty.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston