strangers

Example Sentences

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Children as young as five are at risk of being contacted by strangers and pressured into spending money on Roblox, campaigners have claimed in a complaint to US regulators.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

What started as a question of what smells good has become something else — small moments of recognition between many people who, just hours earlier, had been total strangers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

They would render some parents legal strangers to the children they are already raising, potentially leaving those kids without recognized parents at all.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

A sluggish residential real-estate market has driven desperate homeowners to ask strangers on the internet for their input.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

But something about the whole exchange struck him as weird and fake, like in a soft-drink commercial, where people took one sip and were suddenly dancing and singing and hugging total strangers.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix