foreigner

Example Sentences

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“I was such a foreigner, a guest in that community,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

In a memoir called Ausländer – the German word for foreigner or outsider – Sir Michael charts his family's treatment under the Nazis.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

But if the trader was a foreigner who placed the trades abroad, U.S. authorities might not have a case because of a lack of jurisdiction, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 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