foreigner

Example Sentences

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The Durham director of cricket replaces Luke Wright, who stepped down for personal reasons after the Ashes, and becomes the first foreigner to chair England's selection panel.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

“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

"After this year, will we be better able to recognise a pilgrim in the visitor, a seeker in the stranger, a neighbour in the foreigner, and fellow travellers in those who are different?"

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

Any thrownaway lover in wet unlaced shoes and a buttoned-up sweater under his coat is a foreigner here.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison