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
• Yet poor treatment of foreigners in the town hasn’t gone away.
  — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• 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 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
• But the narrow, car-free streets that foreigners love aren’t what locals want.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• To fund these wars, Congolese leaders sold mine sites to foreigners.
  — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
• Unsafe incidents at sea are on the uptick in places where China wants to keep foreigners out.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
• And around Japan, night schools fill a gap for both foreigners and Japanese who missed out on middle school.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• The 29-year-old was just one of the scores of foreigners who became caught up in the attack that has devastated families around the world.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• The majority of victims are local, but foreigners have been seized in the past.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
• At least 13 are Israeli; the rest are said to be foreigners from places including Thailand.
  — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2023
• The same is true of Israelis and foreigners – most of them civilians – killed in Palestinian attacks.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• In many respects, Kim-boy and his friends and family have been made foreigners in their own homeland.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• Many foreigners who studied in the U.S. are now moving to other countries.
  — Semyon Dukach, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• The mayor outlined a plan — still not implemented — to find shelter and jobs for the growing ranks of foreigners, some of whom sleep on the streets and beg for food and cash.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• In the long, long history of China, few foreigners must have loved this country as much as Perry Link has.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
• As a journalist and a foreigner in Russia, Mr. Gershkovich has the misfortune of standing at the very point where these two trends meet.
  — Michael Kimmage, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• And where were foreigners the smallest slice of new residents?
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
• Yet the pace setters in the hills were clearly the foreigners, with the composed and beautifully damped GTI shining brightest.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• At least 19 Israelis and foreigners have died, according to Reuters.
  — Shira Pinson, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Their goal is to highlight Mongolian Buddhism and give foreigners the chance to learn about this practice first-hand.
  — Breanna Wilson, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The problem is that some of the most recognizable players are foreigners on F-1 student visas.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
• In the 17th century, the ruling Tokugawa shogunate closed its borders to the outside world and outlawed the presence of foreigners, the first episode explains.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2023
• Dozens of foreigners were among those killed, including people who had fled war and unrest elsewhere in the region.
  — Samy Magdy and Yousef Mourad The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024