stranger
Example Sentences
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On a recent hike with a friend, Diaz said he was looking at some mushrooms he found on the trail and a stranger “chided me for doing something so risky.”
From Los Angeles Times
No stranger to a comeback, Vonn retired from the sport in 2019 as the most decorated female skier at the time but had suffered several serious leg injuries.
From BBC
The state is the kind of place where small talk about the weather turns into a half-hour conversation about life; a place where citizens greet or wave to strangers while driving or walking past them.
From Salon
The stranger was blasting rap music, “and nobody did anything, because everyone in Britain is afraid now.”
Besides, she wasn’t supposed to open the door to strangers.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.