perfect stranger
Example Sentences
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Tumbling into the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the band are boisterous and charming, the sort of people to greet a perfect stranger like a long-lost cousin.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
In the middle of this post-apocalyptic, miserable situation, recognizing something in a perfect stranger of yourself.
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2024
If she wasn’t so incapacitated by panic, she’d be even more outraged that a perfect stranger was standing in her living room offering her a glass of water.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2021
That morning, in the local coffee shop, a perfect stranger asked me if I was that out-of-town fellow who was going to be sleeping on Jean’s couch that evening.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2019
Of course, I was six feet off the deck on the head of a human—a perfect stranger and probably foreign.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
