How to Use foreigner in a Sentence

foreigner

noun

• I can tell by your accent you're a foreigner in these parts.
• Being able to look with the eyes of a foreigner is maybe the best way to see ourselves.
  — Ilaria Ravarino, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• In the depths of the discussion, the foreigner asks a question.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 4 May 2022
• Jana runs to save a life of a foreigner who can take her far away from her home town.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
• Nice touch by the French to respect a foreigner’s game.
  — Sean Gregory/paris, TIME, 27 July 2024
• Yet poor treatment of foreigners in the town hasn’t gone away.
  — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• Critics attacked him in the press as a foreigner and a Jew.
  — John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• And yet we’re treated as strangers, foreigners and aliens in our own land.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• Maybe for a foreigner the best villa could be room 202, which is higher and has a full sea view.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 30 July 2021
• The source of the funds was a corrupt foreigner, in some cases likely a tool of a foreign state.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 May 2023
• Biden doesn’t spend all his time blaming the foreigners.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
• The faded roof paint, something with the sign's font: it was clearly owned by a foreigner.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• The two warring sides agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire this week to allow time for more foreigners and civilians to flee.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 26 Apr. 2023
• Some of the most interesting things to observe were the short and long-stay foreigners.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2024
• He was named the first foreigner to serve as governor of the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694.
  — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• But the narrow, car-free streets that foreigners love aren’t what locals want.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• When a foreigner resides among you in a land, do not mistreat them.
  — Jon Kelvey, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 July 2019
• Could it be turned into a carnival, put on for the gaze of foreigners?
  — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
• Looking back, the years around the 2008 Olympics may have been the best time to be a foreigner wanting to understand China.
  — Jennifer Conrad, Wired, 6 Feb. 2022
• The ship carried people from 54 countries, and foreigners were to be whisked home.
  — Olga R. Rodriguez, Daisy Nguyen, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2020
• For decades, the canyon and nearby Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city, were off the radar for foreigners.
  — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2023
• At the heart of the conflict, as presented to the player, is the idea of western foreigners entering Japan.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
• Most of the Chinese players watched him warily; they had been warned not to talk to foreigners.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
• Some foreigners have been jailed on lese majeste charges in the past, but the vast majority have been Thai.
  — Reuters, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
• Roughly half of the 15 buyers at the project so far are foreigners, according to a salesperson for the project.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Thousands of foreigners from all over the world have signed up to fight in Ukraine – both for Kyiv and for Russian mercenary groups.
  — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 7 Aug. 2024
• It is predicted that the number of foreigners will increase more and more in Japan.
  — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2020
• To fund these wars, Congolese leaders sold mine sites to foreigners.
  — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
• Once upon a time, allowing foreigners to own the Waldorf—a symbol of American luxury no less iconic than the martini—would have been inconceivable.
  — Ben Ryder Howe, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
• Usually, a consular official whose office issues the visa for a foreigner makes the revocation decision once they've been alerted about an arrest or a suspension.
  — Marc Caputo, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025