Stranger, The
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Herzog is interested in everything, and makes everything interesting, exulting in all of the world’s settings, the stranger the better.
“I told you, you’d think I was crazy. But it gets stranger. The cat was carrying what looked like a little monkey in its mouth. The monkey was limp. It looked dead.”
From Literature
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“Welcome, stranger,” the Emcee bids in three languages to his crowd, signaling how any nightlife scene is built on welcoming they who are a stranger and that which is stranger than the norm into its ample bosom.
From Salon
Her friendship blind date was part of Dinner with a Stranger, the society Juliette and her flatmates started "on a whim" for fellow Glasgow University students who want to meet new people.
From BBC
Nevertheless, even the half-aware viewer will have questions about “The Perfect Stranger,” the novel within the novel, whose events play out on the screen as settled history, and which other characters accept as such, but which is full of things Nancy could not have possibly known.
From Los Angeles Times
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