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

The feat was fading from memory, but Pederson grinned, seeming to recognize why a perfect stranger had come to talk to him about the Plaisted expedition.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016

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