STRANGER in a Sentence

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For STRANGER, below is one of 238 sentences:
Kissed on the cheek by a perfect stranger, the lady exclaimed, "Young man, I should have you horse-whipped for your impudence."

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 Meanings and Examples of STRANGER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stranger
 n.  an individual that one is not acquainted with
 n.  anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I don't believe but what you're the only stranger has set foot in that house for over twenty years.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Why he should have captivated Scarlett when his mind was a stranger to hers she did not know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  The stranger, a native of Savannah, had just returned after twelve years in the inland country.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  As the night wore on and the drinks went round, there came a time when all the others in the game laid down their hands and Gerald and the stranger were battling alone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The stranger shoved in all his chips and followed with the deed to his plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Observing how good a time Charles Hamilton's widow appeared to be having with a perfect stranger, they put their heads together disapprovingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  There it lay in this stranger's calloused dirty palm and soon it would find its way North and onto the finger of some Yankee woman who would be proud to wear stolen things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  A stranger might have thought she spoke of her four dead sons, but the girls from Tara knew her horses were in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  He took it as naturally as he did the fact that Carreen had found comfort in talking to him, a stranger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  You've been mighty good to me, Miss Scarlett," he said, "and me a stranger and nothin to you all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  And she saw framed in the cracking gilt molding a stranger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  This was a stranger's palm, not Scarlett O'Hara's soft, white, dimpled, helpless one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  She would cry if she talked about him and she mustn't cry, not until she was safely in the wagon with Will and out in the country where no stranger could see her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  "A stranger without being told a word about us would know this house was built with ill-gotten gains," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  I'd met Anna before, but her friend was a complete/total stranger to me.
2  The dog bit at the stranger.
3  He was a complete stranger to me.
4  Telling a complete stranger about your life is difficult.
5  The dog bit at the stranger in the leg.
6  The stranger's question surprised me so that I temporarily lost my tongue.
7  She gave the stranger a wooden stare.
8  It's amazing that a stranger suddenly become your world.
9  Because your accomplice is an anonymous stranger, it's safer than asking a friend to participate in your ruse.
10  Now, uttered before a stranger, the accusation cut me to the heart; I dimly perceived that she was already obliterating hope from the new phase of existence which she destined me to enter.
11  The sentry challenged the stranger at the gates.
12  The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.
13  " So Tom he thanked them very hearty and handsome, and let himself be persuaded, and come in; and when he was in he said he was a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio, and his name was William Thompson -- and he made another bow."
14  Kissed on the cheek by a perfect stranger, the lady exclaimed, "Young man, I should have you horse-whipped for your impudence."
15  Because he was a stranger in town with no visible means of support, Martin feared he would be jailed as a vagrant.