FOREIGN in a Sentence
Learn FOREIGN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
312 example sentences for FOREIGN, such as:
1. He used to affect a foreign accent.
2. That store was a front for foreign agent.
3. The bank will supply and buy back foreign currency.
4. The ability to speak a foreign language is highly desirable.
5. There was a gentleness foreign to him in both hand and voice.
2. That store was a front for foreign agent.
3. The bank will supply and buy back foreign currency.
4. The ability to speak a foreign language is highly desirable.
5. There was a gentleness foreign to him in both hand and voice.
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Meanings and Examples of FOREIGN
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foreign
a. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
a. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared with the dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
2 There was a gentleness foreign to him in both hand and voice.
3 But the forceful words she uttered were foreign to Melanie who seldom voiced an opinion at all and never an unkind word.
4 Trouble enough with these foreign farmers; if you don't watch these Swedes they turn socialist or populist or some fool thing on you in a minute.
5 They saw the Grand Canyon, the adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexico, their first foreign land.
6 In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
7 But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
8 But all this might remain inadequately estimated, were not something said here of the peculiar usages of whaling-vessels when meeting each other in foreign seas, and especially on a common cruising-ground.
9 While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants.
10 The delicate side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly retained the plaited crumpled appearance of a baby's ears newly arrived from foreign parts.
11 I pricked up my ears, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue.
12 He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.
13 One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers in our county were the first to become prosperous.
14 Jelinek kept rye bread on hand and smoked fish and strong imported cheeses to please the foreign palate.
15 Even after she learned to speak English readily, there was always something impulsive and foreign in her speech.
Example Sentence: (164 in 11 pages)
1 For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece.
2 The ability to speak a foreign language is highly desirable.
3 He used to affect a foreign accent.
4 The foreign guests will call on you next Wednesday afternoon.
5 If you travel frequently, find an agency that will change one foreign currency directly into another.
6 That store was a front for foreign agent.
7 The government kicked a foreign secret agent out of the country.
8 Now that she's an air hostess, foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.
9 The younger members of most American families don't like foreign food.
10 What annoys me about these people is their unthinking hostility to anything foreign or unfamiliar.
11 Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
12 The Kremlin is deeply split in its approach to foreign policy.
13 Someone on the radio was gabbling away in a foreign language.
14 The bank will supply and buy back foreign currency.
15 The possession of a passport is essential for foreign travel.