perfect stranger

Example Sentences

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Tumbling into the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the band are boisterous and charming, the sort of people to greet a perfect stranger like a long-lost cousin.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

If she wasn’t so incapacitated by panic, she’d be even more outraged that a perfect stranger was standing in her living room offering her a glass of water.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2021

Hopefully, I can make him proud because he put his arms around a perfect stranger who on the first day said, ‘Coach I want to be just like you.’

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2021

But for Kate, who works as an elf at a Christmas shop, meeting a perfect stranger on the job proves the gig might be far more than just a quick paycheck.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2019

She marveled that there had been a time when she had almost gladly given a perfect stranger everything she had, but now found it hard to send her own mother a dollar.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson