stranger - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • loathe: I hadn't ever come across opposing fans before, and I loathed them in a way I had never before loathed strangers.
  • entertain: He loved the brothers, entertained strangers and worked together with the teachers of the truth for the truth.
  • hug: I wanted to turn to my neighbors and tell them how excited I was, I wanted to hug random strangers.
  • greet: The baron appeared on the scene, greeted the stranger most cordially, and arm in arm they descended among the throng.
  • let: Never let a stranger in on someone else's behalf.
  • invite: The high crime rate of today has just about finished the tradition of inviting a needy stranger to have a meal with you.

Converse of subject

  • kill: A female walking home late at night killed by a stranger is a classic example of a particularly ' newsworthy ' killing.
  • murder: A child in Britain is 10 times more likely to be run over and killed by a car than murdered by a stranger.

Adjective modifier

  • mysterious: A tall, mysterious stranger had handed it to his servant in the street earlier in the evening.
  • handsome: From the minute she spots the handsome stranger, Lucy's world begins to change.
  • random: Stranger Gut Buster Gut Buster with a random stranger!
  • complete: You'd never trust a complete stranger, or give them your personal details, would you?
  • utter: I should think Dr. Butler or any other fat English Divine would take two utter strangers into his library and show them the way!
  • total: Don't expect a long conversation with a total stranger at the bus stop or in the bus.

Preposition: on

  • shore: And then he sees a stranger on the shore telling them to cast on the other side of the boat.

Modifies a noun

  • danger: Officers later spoke to local school children about stranger danger.

Possessives

  • 'close: The 'close ' stranger The appearance of the 'close ' stranger is symptomatic for the three national cinematographies.

Preposition: in

  • land: Overall I feel like a stranger in a strange land.
  • street: She even tried to smell strangers in the street.

Preposition: than

  • fiction: Stranger than Fiction Breaking the Code is a play, not a documentary.

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