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

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

Then for the next two minutes, I told a perfect stranger everything I felt ashamed of.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2019

Lee shot back without missing a beat or betraying the least bit of surprise to be addressed so familiarly by a perfect stranger.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2017

She marveled that there had been a time when she had almost gladly given a perfect stranger everything she had, but now found it hard to send her own mother a dollar.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson