ESTRANGE in a Sentence
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31 example sentences for ESTRANGE, such as:
1. It was a perpetual estrangement.
2. We are estranged, and I want to know why.
3. The argument estranged him from his brother.
4. His behavior estranged him from his brother.
5. Just at this Fortune broke faith and grew estranged.
2. We are estranged, and I want to know why.
3. The argument estranged him from his brother.
4. His behavior estranged him from his brother.
5. Just at this Fortune broke faith and grew estranged.
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Meanings and Examples of ESTRANGE
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estrange
v. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
v. remove from customary environment or associations
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 This second meeting might have been expected, one would have supposed, to estrange them still more.
2 Fanny estranged from him, silent and reserved, was an unnatural state of things; a state which he must break through, and which he could easily learn to think she was wanting him to break through.
3 She had something of an estranged mien; the solitude exhaled from the heath was concentrated in this face that had risen from it.
4 We are estranged, and I want to know why.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
Context Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
5 So long estranged by fate and circumstances, they needed something slight and casual to run before and throw open the doors of intercourse, so that their real thoughts might be led across the threshold.
6 There were both truth and error in the impression; the child and mother were estranged, but through Hester's fault, not Pearl's.
7 For thy sake Libyan tribes and Nomad kings are hostile; my Tyrians are estranged; for thy sake, thine, is mine honour perished, and the former fame, my one title to the skies.
8 Just at this Fortune broke faith and grew estranged.
9 But when Gerty stood at her side with the tea she pushed it away, and turned an estranged eye on the familiar room.
10 Their minds, lately estranged, seemed suddenly to have been drawn closer, one to the other.
11 She held out her hand to him, and with a mixed feeling of estrangement and tenderness pressed her lips to his forehead as he stooped to kiss her hand.
12 In his words, his tone, and especially in that calm, almost antagonistic look could be felt an estrangement from everything belonging to this world, terrible in one who is alive.
13 Besides a feeling of aloofness from everybody Natasha was feeling a special estrangement from the members of her own family.
14 Occasionally, and it was always just after they had been happiest together, they suddenly had a feeling of estrangement and hostility, which occurred most frequently during Countess Mary's pregnancies, and this was such a time.
15 It was a perpetual estrangement.
Example Sentence:
1 The argument estranged him from his brother.
2 He became estranged from his family after the argument.
3 His behavior estranged him from his brother.
4 She is attempting to contact her estranged husband to break the news.
5 The estranged wife sought a divorce and believed it was unique chance to lead a new life.
6 They finally came together after years of estrangement.