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

In the middle of this post-apocalyptic, miserable situation, recognizing something in a perfect stranger of yourself.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2024

Normally, I am hesitant to commit to a lengthy first date with a perfect stranger, but I absolutely love theater, and quite frankly, I was both intrigued and delighted by the gesture.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2019

The feat was fading from memory, but Pederson grinned, seeming to recognize why a perfect stranger had come to talk to him about the Plaisted expedition.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016

Biting into a tiny sugar-covered cake, I gave each of the girls the evil eye, letting them know Mamá was not a topic that we needed to discuss, not with a perfect stranger like Cecilia.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall