Use strangers in a sentence
Sentences starting with strangers
- Strangers were taken to see it, as it rose in its simple grandeur. [4]
- Strangers merely supposed that the Speaker was taking a gargle for some affection of the throat. [5]
- Strangers are quite right in saying that there are no cupbearers like the Persian. [10]
- Strangers and servants may do so, but the cottagers have withdrawn their support from the ocean. [4]
- Strangers were still arriving, ignorant of the fact that the Passion Play had ceased, and some of them must be aware that this large sum of money was in the parish--no doubt also knew that it was in his house. [11]
Sentences ending with strangers
- She is fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, has dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers. [6]
- In the days when Flood Ireson was drawn in the cart by the Maenads of Marblehead, that fishing town had the name of nurturing a young population not over fond of strangers. [6]
- The Asiatic princes were to dine as guests with the king; but they sat at a separate table, as the Egyptians would have been defiled by sitting at the same table with strangers. [10]
- The whole street was like a crowded fair; and Alexander had several times to follow Agatha and her escort out into the roadway, quitting the shelter of the arcade, to escape a party of rioters or the impertinent addresses of strangers. [10]
- I did not want to act like a lunatic before strangers. [5]
- Her son had turned his back on his parents' dwelling, and had gone out as a stranger among strangers. [10]
- It was granted to her and hers that they should dwell henceforth forever in the house by the Pegnitz, humbly indeed, but honorably and without the aid of strangers. [10]
- Despise me, if thou wilt; I know thou lovest me not; but say not that to be great we need the help of strangers! [10]
- Now you musn't think you can impose on us because we are strangers. [5]
- Vessels are waiting there for all strangers. [10]
Short sentences using strangers
- They was strangers to her. [13]
- Where are the strangers? [10]
- We became absolute strangers. [9]
- Little strangers? [5]
Sentences containing strangers two or more times
- These men were not there to guard their possessions against strangers, but against each other; for strangers seldom visit Athens and the Piraeus, and when they do, they go in daylight, and can buy all the grapes they want for a trifle. [5]
- We do all kinds of things, and help all kinds of people in some ways, but we let strangers remain strangers unless they know how to make their way among us. [8]
- He was always being overtaken by strangers who offered him the protection of their company, or asked for the protection of his--and these strangers were often Thugs, as he presently found out to his cost. [5]
More example sentences with the word strangers in them
- Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
- The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
- Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. [5]
- I take it you are strangers to this great thorough fare, but I am entirely familiar with it. [5]
- There are no words to express how grateful I am that she did not meet her fate in the hands of strangers, but in the loving shelter of her own home. [5]
- Some kind friend, who could challenge a nearer interest than the curious strangers into whose hands the book might fall, at last claimed it, and I was glad that it should be henceforth sealed to common eyes. [6]
- Some of them were strangers to each other. [11]
- The young strangers were kept long at the piano. [5]
- In 1621 there were as many as ten thousand strangers in London, engaged in one hundred and twenty-one different trades. [4]
- Ma says there were 10 hearses, with the fire companies (their engines in mourning--firemen in uniform,) the various benevolent societies in uniform and mourning, and a multitude of citizens and strangers, forming, altogether, a procession of 30,000 persons! [5]
- How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. [5]
- That the age, was unable to separate him from itself, and see his great stature, is probable; that it enjoyed him with a sympathy to which we are strangers there is no doubt. [4]
- The merry man was the first to greet the strangers with a nod; and following the old man's eyes, he observed that perhaps that was the first time he had ever seen a Punch off the stage. [12]
- If the cave was inhabited, it must be by strangers, and by men who had some secret purpose in seeking this seclusion and eluding observation. [4]
- As the master was at the market, the strangers were led by the steward, an old servant grown grey in the service of Theopompus, into the Andronitis, and begged to wait there until he returned. [10]
- In fact, it was after the simple strangers had left the government care that March feared their woes might begin; and he would have liked the government to follow each of them to his home, wherever he meant to fix it within our borders. [8]
- The stranger is warned against taking cold baths in India, but even the most intelligent strangers are fools, and they do not obey, and so they presently get laid up. [5]
- Phelps was, however, unsophisticated in his until the advent of strangers into his life, who brought in literature and various other disturbing influences. [4]
- I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it, because there ain't no telling how soon you are going to need it, away from home and amongst strangers that way. [5]
- If the twins turned their heads, they broke and fled in every direction, but stopped at a safe distance and faced about; and then formed and came on again as soon as the strangers showed them their back. [5]
- Here all was tumult and confusion; the streets were filled with throngs of people--many strangers were there, it seemed, by the looks they cast about--the church-bells rang out their noisy peals, and flags streamed from windows and house-tops. [12]
- At last the trial came on, and the people gathered from all around to witness it; among them many strangers from considerable distances. [5]
- I have been told that I was a pleasant, smiling infant, with nothing to indicate any peculiar nervous susceptibility; not afraid of strangers, but on the contrary ready to make their acquaintance. [6]
- By her references to what this and that and the other person had told her, I perceived that she had been diligently questioning those crowds of visiting strangers, and that out of them she had patiently dug all this mass of invaluable knowledge. [5]
- Ye are strangers to us; ye will not deny that. [5]
- We glanced around to see what the strangers in the house thought of him, for he was beautiful, you know--stunning, in fact--but no one was noticing him; so we knew by that that he was invisible. [5]
- It is needless to say that the sympathies of all the good people of the village, residents and strangers, were actively awakened for the young man about whom they knew so little and conjectured so much. [6]
- The king seemed to have forgotten the presence of strangers, and to be wholly absorbed in thought, but by degrees a change came over his face, it cleared, as a landscape is cleared from the morning mists under the influence of the spring sunshine. [10]
- These be dark times, when strangers have spies at their heels, and all travellers are suspect. [11]
- As a general thing, strangers who crawl in there to sleep do not get up until they are called. [5]
- A glance at these tourist-books shows us that in certain of its aspects the Mississippi has undergone no change since those strangers visited it, but remains to-day about as it was then. [5]
- Few saw, and these gave no indication of surprise, though they were little used to strangers, and none of the name borne by this lady had entered the building for many years. [11]
- Interested observers --if there were any--might have remarked that his friendship with Mr. Hamilton Tooting had increased, that gentleman coming up from Ripton at least twice a week, and aiding Mr. Crewe to multiply his acquaintances by bringing numerous strangers to see him. [9]
- The strangers were then led into the tent, and were there welcomed and entertained with all honor, and offered bread and wine. [10]
- A moment afterwards the voices stopped, but broke out again, quieted, then once more broke out, and presently the Seigneur issued from the door, white with anger, three strangers behind him. [11]
- Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. [7]
- But about this the strangers were as close as mice. [4]
- The bows of the strangers stayed drawn, awaiting word from the leader. [11]
- For a time the sober ants did as they had done at first--carried their friends home and threw the strangers overboard. [5]
- As we proceed, the people are wilder and much more curious about us, having, it is evident, seen few strangers lately. [4]
- He noted how the lattices stirred as he passed through this inner court-yard where few strangers were ever allowed to pass, and he cocked his head vaingloriously. [11]
- So listen: When the Emperor meets Geronimo in the presence of strangers, he seems to take neither more nor less notice of him than of the other pages who come to San Yuste. [10]
- They stood on the Egyptian shore, and already the whole train had passed them except the lepers who, following the strangers, were the last of the whole multitude. [10]
- They ran to the doors, and knocked, and strangers opened, and looked inquiringly upon them. [5]
- He sits out the dinner, and makes the strangers rise first and originate the bowing. [5]
- A portion of the crowd streamed after the strangers, but the larger number remained at their places, knowing that many a new and wonderful sight yet awaited them. [10]
- I suspect, on the contrary, that there are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned. [14]
- They just use the church for a front, and take in strangers in the back alley,--downtown. [9]
- I don't wonder the bodies of so many genteel strangers are found in the waters around New York. [8]
- This reminds me that you speak of Dr. Jenkins and his family as if they were strangers to me. [5]
- It soon proved that they were total strangers, and he wished matters to remain so. [10]
- And the strangers that opened said, We know not these. [5]
- I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds--but they only eat them once. [5]
- The result is, that no horse has a chance to eat, drink, rest, recuperate, or look well or feel well, and so strangers go about the Islands mounted as I was to-day. [5]
- I and friends that lie with me founded and secured the prosperity of this fine city, and the stately bantling of our loves leaves us to rot in a dilapidated cemetery which neighbors curse and strangers scoff at. [5]
- Certain it is that in his wandering among strangers he had come to be a mighty handy, wide-awake fellow, with much that was good in him, inasmuch as with all his subtlety he had kept his true Nuremberger's heart. [10]
- She only knew that an architect from Rome had taken up his quarters at Lochias, for, some time after midnight, she had been to get out meat and salt for him, but in what rooms the strangers had been lodged no one had told her. [10]
- We will announce that all strangers must leave the valley by Wednesday night. [11]
- There were other surprises: flesh and game and wines and fruits --things which had been strangers in that house lately; but Marget made no exclamations, and now even looked unsurprised, which was Satan's influence, of course. [5]
- She had even sung in the church choir till she declined to do so any longer, because strangers stared at her so; which goes to show that she was not so vain as people of her colouring sometimes are. [11]
- The two mourners, stunned with their great grief, desired not the sympathy of strangers. [14]
- Time and again, strangers were astounded to see a wasted, pale, and woe-worn man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly there an hour, with his ear at a little box, then come sighing down, and wander wearily away. [5]
- What does possess strangers to write so many letters? [5]
- These pieces are strangers to each other, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. [6]
- Had they been strangers they would have fought together. [1]
- But they are strangers making their way in a new community. [5]
- The prohibition against strangers had had its effect, and for three whole days the valley had been at rest again. [11]
- Since the two strangers had entered, Angele's eyes had been fastened on the gentleman who accompanied Sir Andrew Melvill. [11]
- The hands of strangers had bound the sapling to a stake and it had shot straight upward, but a mother's love would have ennobled it with carefully chosen grafts. [10]
- And now, while strangers from near and far throng into town, drawn by the sensational struggle which is to culminate in battle to-day, Mr. Crewe is marshalling his forces. [9]
- At tiny rate, strangers are not being made to wait until ten minutes after the service begins. [9]
- Yesterday's events were still fresh in his mind; and he had a feeling that the letting of Lempriere's blood would cool his own and be some cure for the choler which the presence of these strangers at the Court had wrought in him. [11]
- But there was still another relation between the mountain and the town at its foot, which strangers were not likely to hear alluded to, and which was oftener thought of than spoken of by its inhabitants. [6]
- Psamtik descended the steps to welcome the strangers. [10]
- In a rude state of civilisation the robbery of strangers is, indeed, generally considered as honourable. [1]
- During his last speech he had looked at her from time to time; but in the presence of so many strangers she had avoided meeting his gaze. [10]
- She had not sought to show her presence: she had seen him--that was comfort to her heart; and she would not mar the memory of that last night's farewell by another before these strangers. [11]
- They are usually so suspicious of strangers that they worry them excessively with the delays and aggravations incident to a complicated passport system. [5]
- And when your sleep was spent and you came forth, two strangers, well instructed in their parts, were here to meet you; and all we, your friends, in our disguises, were close at hand, to see and hear, you may be sure. [5]
- All along the shore the inhabitants stood in clusters, offering food to the strangers. [4]
- On the whole, she enjoyed her visit very much, in spite of her shyness, and the difficulty she always experienced in meeting the advances of those strangers whose kindness she did not feel herself in a position to repay. [14]
- We had some sharp words, and I felt pretty cheap, to come banging into a grave old person like that, with a million strangers looking on and smiling to themselves. [5]
- The strangers shouted several times more, then rode by--there seemed to be a dozen of the horses--and I heard nothing more. [5]
- They all brought roses too and invited the strangers with looks and words to stay with them and buy their flowers. [10]
- Occasionally his name rippled from one end of the crowded veranda to the other, and she experienced a curious and uncomfortable sensation when she heard it in the mouths of these strangers. [9]
- Like all the rest of the village and its visitors, she could not help thinking a good deal about the young man lying ill amongst strangers. [6]
- If my eyes remember well, the French landscapes are more like our own, in spring tone, at least; but the English are a revelation to us strangers of what green really is, and what grass and trees can be. [4]
- This hotel have recently enlarge, do offer all commodities on moderate price, at the strangers gentlemen who whish spend the seasons on the Lake Come. [5]
- There my letter reached her, and rather than be beholden to strangers or accept my money there, she came to us. [9]
- I do not quarrel with those who invite their friends to a banquet to which many strangers are expected to contribute. [6]
- But she also provided most carefully for the outward life; nay, perhaps she laid a little too much stress upon our manners in greeting strangers, at table, and elsewhere. [10]
- The evening's entertainment presently closed, and we joined the innumerable caravan of half-drowned strangers, and waded home again. [5]
- Notwithstanding her father's presence, she had never been so desolate as among these ladies and gentlemen, nearly all of whom were strangers. [10]
- Egger is well prepared to entertain strangers, having several rooms and several beds in each room. [4]
- I thanked the poor woman warmly, and then asked her if the old man might not betray me to strangers. [11]
- Here was a poor creature whom hard fortune had exiled from his natural home beyond the seas, and whose troubles ought to have touched these idle strangers that thronged about him; but did it? [5]
- For the American, politics and ethics were strangers. [9]
- Perhaps at this point, when Mark Twain is once more leaving America, we may offer two letters from strangers to him--letters of appreciation--such as he was constantly receiving from those among the thousands to whom he had given happiness. [5]
- Eleven years have passed since I buried him in the land of strangers, by the waters of Babylon, where my people pined in captivity. [10]
- As the two passed into the small back room with the frosted door, one of the strangers said to the other: "What does he come here for, if he's too proud to speak! [11]
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