stranger

Example Sentences

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“I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Of course, Houston is no stranger to space history.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

But it became a much stranger, sadder story which almost a decade later is told onscreen in The Artist Who Disappeared.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Later, a stranger gleefully approaches Kornev, convinced he knows him, and the effect is chilling — a glitch in the matrix in which human connection briefly flourishes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Natalie pulled Javari’s hoodie over her head and drew her knees up to her chin, embarrassed to be crying in front of a stranger.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz