estrange

Example Sentences

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García's film is about fathers and sons, and it certainly tackles the thorniness that can estrange children and their parents.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2022

I’m truly fearful he’ll get the idea that you estrange from a family member as easily as you throw away a napkin.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2021

Hval’s aim seems not to offend but to estrange, creating distance between herself and the listener; her narrators are unreliable but fascinating.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 15, 2015

There are some who would like to estrange this swath of the country even further from Australia’s coastal population centers.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2014

It serves, O bhikkhus, to repel the unconverted and to estrange them.

From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Carus, Paul