foreigner
Example Sentences
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Although Alfredo is Mexican, he feels like a foreigner in the country he left behind when he was a teenager.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
“I was such a foreigner, a guest in that community,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
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
As a foreigner, Felix was afforded some security from persecution at the hands of French Catholics, provided he kept a low profile and focused on his studies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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