stranger
Example Sentences
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In politics, truth is stranger than fiction more often than you might expect.
From BBC
Carr said she was a teaching assistant in the girls' class and the children were taught about "stranger danger".
From BBC
Table by table, the circle of belief widened from friends to acquaintances, from acquaintances to strangers, until it included many prominent Rochester businessmen, doctors, ministers, wives, and children … soon reaching the famous Frederick Douglass.
From Literature
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Mr. Herzog is interested in everything, and makes everything interesting, exulting in all of the world’s settings, the stranger the better.
Lin leaves stacks of “conversation cards” featuring icebreaker questions on the tables at Coffee Confessionals, to help prompt connection between strangers or for those on first dates.
From Los Angeles Times
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