perfect stranger

Example Sentences

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Tumbling into the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the band are boisterous and charming, the sort of people to greet a perfect stranger like a long-lost cousin.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

If she wasn’t so incapacitated by panic, she’d be even more outraged that a perfect stranger was standing in her living room offering her a glass of water.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2021

But for Kate, who works as an elf at a Christmas shop, meeting a perfect stranger on the job proves the gig might be far more than just a quick paycheck.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2019

That morning, in the local coffee shop, a perfect stranger asked me if I was that out-of-town fellow who was going to be sleeping on Jean’s couch that evening.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2019

I said you can’t just barge into the funeral of a perfect stranger.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli