outlander

Example Sentences

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Claire is an outlander in more than one sense: an Englishwoman in a suspicious Scots clan, and a spirited woman in a patriarchal society.

From Time • Aug. 7, 2014

Like the greenest outlander, I gaped, surprised by sights that should have been long familiar.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2012

I had been doing this forever, but I was still an outsider, still an outlander.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2012

Ride, acceleration and handling: The outlander is good in all three categories when used as designed.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2010

How good it was, she reflected happily, to know that this time she would go East, not as a lonely outlander, but as one whose place awaited her.

From Jane Allen: Right Guard by Bancroft, Edith