How to Use stranger in a Sentence

stranger

1 of 2 noun

• I'm a stranger to the area.
• He is a complete stranger to me.
• Children are taught not to talk to strangers.
• The stranger stands there, stunned.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
• And then there were the strangers.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
• This is true even for strangers.
  — Claire White, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
• Just then, a stranger walked past.
  — Autumn Barnes, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
• Scared of us, a bunch of strangers.
  — Barry Pintar, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
• Which strangers stick with you the most?
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• Not in front of a crowd of strangers.
  — Alex Zietlow, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
• Not in front of a crowd of strangers.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2026
• That's why all those strangers liked me so much.
  — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
• Who knows what the child will do/say about a stranger?
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
• Who would let their child sleep alone at night with a stranger?
  — Marlow Stern, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
• This big eye sore of a random stranger!
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 Feb. 2026
• Who is the dancer playing the stranger?
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
• Lloyd is no stranger to revivals.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
• This helps keep strangers out of your phone if it is lost or stolen.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
• Neighbors stepped in to save strangers.
  — Doug Williams, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
• But strangers do not have those filters.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• From her bed, grandma saw strangers in the shop.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
• This is the first time in my life that strangers have looked at me naked.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• And around here, nobody stays a stranger for long.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026
• Not just some stranger, but your colleague and friend.
  — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2026
• The World Cup is no stranger to protests.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
• And, for a time, some strangers did keep their distance.
  — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
• But some pairs of strangers showed a pattern more like friends.
  — Emily Falk, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
• And that feedback had come from a friend, not a stranger.
  — Kristen Arnett, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
• Where a stranger sees two kids hoping for a ball and steps in.
  — Peter Folan, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
• Think of it as a great way to meet a few strangers in paradise.
  — Blair Crosby, AJC.com, 5 July 2026

stranger

2 of 2 adjective

• But if anything, the truth was stranger.
  — Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• Here’s a rare case where maybe stranger things haven’t happened.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Dec. 2022
• Then the day got stranger, because it was bound to be in this city.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 18 June 2026
• The world, strange in the first place, is often made stranger by our minds.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• The timing of the event for Burgess could not have been stranger.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• These days truth seems to be getting much stranger than fiction.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• Even stranger, every kitchen knife in the house was missing.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
• That description might sound strange, but the film is even stranger.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, on the streets things were getting stranger.
  — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
• If that feels rather on-the-beak, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
• Stay up all night to watch stranger things finale and Netflix crashed.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 July 2022
• As more details of the crime emerged, the story only got stranger.
  — Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
• In a truth is stranger than fiction plot twist, yet another death.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• Yes, recovery is a long shot, but stranger things have happened.
  — cleveland, 12 May 2022
• There is one scenario that would make for a stranger end to an already bizarre season.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• In this case, my experience was much stranger.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• As the shapes of their lives changed — got harder, got stranger — their friendship strengthened.
  — Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 5 Oct. 2020
• The song-making of Squid grew ever stranger with Carey in tow.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
• But the photos continued to show up in his mailbox, and things grew stranger.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
• There could never be a stranger time for Guy Raz to release his new book.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• The old expression that comes to mind is sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• Even stranger, the appendage is covered in hooked protusions at its tip.
  — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
• Like opening the bathroom door in a bar to a stranger rag-dolled on the toilet, her face closed for the night.
  — Jiordan Castle, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• Now that was weird, but again, stranger in reality than anything the show could muster.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2020
• Victory from the jaws of defeat; stranger things have happened.
  — WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• Everything else to do with that tournament is stranger.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
• But the actual answer is a mix of both of these, stranger and better than either.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• There also was a change in philosophy for one of the more stranger concepts.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• As Herbert readers know, the world of Dune gets stranger with every book.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• What was stranger to me was how exhausting little things, like a friend coming to the front garden, were.
  — Imogen Greenhalgh, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2020