strangers
Example Sentences
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There we were: two strangers in Silver Lake, surrounded by furniture being sold off piece by piece, both trying to make new lives from the remains of our old ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
She says they were pitched as giving single people "access to a virtually infinite pool of strangers" and sparing them "from the possibility of rejection".
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
A year and a half out, it seems a million years away, and I dread the day we pass each other somewhere in the city we both still live in and pretend to be strangers.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
Call-center gigs got people into corporate offices and taught valuable soft skills like solving problems and talking to strangers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
“We’re going to do all the things together. Eat waffles, text strangers, roam the streets with Oliver and Alyx...”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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