How to Use foreigner in a Sentence
foreigner
noun- I can tell by your accent you're a foreigner in these parts.
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This is why foreigners want to be here.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
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Two foreigners in the same bunk!
—Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
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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
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Yet poor treatment of foreigners in the town hasn’t gone away.
—Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
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And yet we’re treated as strangers, foreigners and aliens in our own land.
—Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
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When a foreigner resides among you in a land, do not mistreat them.
—Jon Kelvey, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 July 2019
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When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.
—Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 6 Sep. 2017
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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
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In Japan, a gaijin (foreigner) is on their own.
—Jeremy O. Harris, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr. 2026
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But the narrow, car-free streets that foreigners love aren’t what locals want.
—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
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Tequila, made with steamed agave and smoother than mezcal, caught on with foreigners long ago.
—John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2018
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This is a foreigner concern abroad.
—CBS News, 14 June 2026
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The body of one foreigner was not yet identified.
—ABC News, 15 June 2026
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Could it be turned into a carnival, put on for the gaze of foreigners?
—Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
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For the desperate foreigners whose future hinges on it, the stakes are high.
—Cindy Carcamo, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
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Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
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Moscow warned last week of systemic strikes and urged foreigners to leave Kyiv.
—Valentyn Ogirenko, USA Today, 2 June 2026
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To fund these wars, Congolese leaders sold mine sites to foreigners.
—Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
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In the depths of the discussion, the foreigner asks a question.
—Greg Story, Forbes, 4 May 2022
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Where were the foreigners headed?
—Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
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As a foreigner, he was not allowed to receive visits.
—ABC News, 22 May 2026
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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
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Mobs are looting foreigners’ shops.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2026
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At the moment all the foreigner slots at the Chinese club are taken.
—SI.com, 16 May 2018
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Some of the most interesting things to observe were the short and long-stay foreigners.
—Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2024
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That night, Joost wanted to dine at a real restaurant like rich foreigners.
—Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
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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
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Friedman added that the Russians have a term for foreigners who hold such views about their leaders.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2026
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If the Russians are scheming foreigners, then Steele must be one, too.
—David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
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