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

Another reason I spend more time advising those who estrange vs. those who have been estranged?

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022

In his color work, he sometimes accepted ambient blurs of motion to emphasize, and estrange, the stillness of a certain subject amid a street’s commotion.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

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

I can't tell you how it distresses me to see him estrange his best friends as he does.

From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson