estrange
Example Sentences
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Novey transports us toward two reckonings: what exactly happened to estrange the women and, later, how Leah will respond to Jean’s legacy of sculptures.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023
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
But maybe, Shin would have us believe, there’s a way to get past the limitations of our perspectives, to subvert our own framing devices via art’s ability to estrange and transubstantiate.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020
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
"I am sure it is true as to everything political, and shall endeavor to estrange myself to everything of that character."
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
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"The Iliad" by Homer, Book 1
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