outsider
Example Sentences
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"It's as if an outsider were involved in our family issues," complained a resident of northern Lashio city, once the rebels' biggest war prize but returned to the junta via Beijing's intervention in April.
From Barron's
“Mary really is both an ally and an outsider, and I think that that’s a really beautiful thing in her book.”
From Los Angeles Times
There’s no doubt that Russia’s military and Russian society have paid a terrible price for this war, worse than outsiders will ever know.
From Salon
“If an outsider looked into the family, they might be horrified with what the person will put up with,” Lembke says.
In Eugene, Cristobal was guarded about the football team’s operations, going one step beyond the typical approach of closing practices to outsiders.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
