strangers

Example Sentences

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It’s a place where people pause to chat up strangers on oak-and-magnolia-draped streets, a place where boutiques sell smocked baby dresses and shirts with phrases such as “Pearls Are Always Appropriate.”

From Slate • May 4, 2026

We dance, we chat with strangers, we dance with strangers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

Samuels was initially briefly placed in accommodation with strangers, which she found "weird and scary" before being moved to an attic studio above an old pub.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Sitting beside him was Rachael Schultz, 35, who had to ask strangers on bicycles for directions.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Now strangers see them together and they think he’s her father, and that embarrasses them, though they smile and try to make light of it.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar