foreigner
Example Sentences
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“I was such a foreigner, a guest in that community,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
This may have been because he was a foreigner, or a calculating businessman, but Ms. Goldring makes the case that it was Holbein’s irreplaceable artistic prowess that kept him in the king’s good graces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
In a memoir called Ausländer – the German word for foreigner or outsider – Sir Michael charts his family's treatment under the Nazis.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
They also cast him as a foreigner, despite him being from Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory and makes him a U.S. citizen since birth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
These rulers had two major concerns: first, that a foreigner might enter Italy with his armies; second, that no one of them should seize more territory.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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