FOREIGNER in a Sentence
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312 example sentences for FOREIGNER, such as:
1. He used to affect a foreign accent.
2. That store was a front for foreign agent.
3. These regulations refer to every foreigner.
4. He was still a foreigner, and he expected to remain one.
5. The ability to speak a foreign language is highly desirable.
2. That store was a front for foreign agent.
3. These regulations refer to every foreigner.
4. He was still a foreigner, and he expected to remain one.
5. The ability to speak a foreign language is highly desirable.
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Meanings and Examples of FOREIGNER
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foreigner
n. someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
Classic Sentence: (148 in 10 pages)
1 You see," said she, "you are a foreigner.
2 The lady having perceived two enormous diamonds upon the hands of the young foreigner praised them with such good faith that from Candide's fingers they passed to her own.
3 But Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner.
4 Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
5 D'Artagnan had more than once related to his friends his adventure with the stranger, as well as the apparition of the beautiful foreigner, to whom this man had confided some important missive.
6 The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
7 She had an idea that he would have to be a foreigner: not an Englishman, still less an Irishman.
8 To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue.
9 But he has a gentleman staying with him, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
10 The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a "new man," despite his nearly ten years' residence, and a foreigner.
11 The consciousness of her different point of view merely kept them at a little distance from her, as though she were a foreigner with whom it was an effort to talk.
12 He was still a foreigner, and he expected to remain one.
13 This, in connection with his costume, strengthened the good woman in the belief that he was a foreigner.
14 They are certainly less particular with a foreigner than with a Frenchman.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.
Context Highlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.
15 I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble.
Example Sentence: (164 in 11 pages)
1 The buyer, who wished to remain anonymous, is a foreigner with homes in Europe.
2 The king would ordain that no foreigner should be allowed to enter the city.
3 I seem to be the first customer of this week; a small boy stares at the pasty-faced foreigner who doesn't speak their language.
4 These regulations refer to every foreigner.
5 For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece.
6 The ability to speak a foreign language is highly desirable.
7 He used to affect a foreign accent.
8 The foreign guests will call on you next Wednesday afternoon.
9 If you travel frequently, find an agency that will change one foreign currency directly into another.
10 That store was a front for foreign agent.
11 The government kicked a foreign secret agent out of the country.
12 Now that she's an air hostess, foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.
13 The younger members of most American families don't like foreign food.
14 What annoys me about these people is their unthinking hostility to anything foreign or unfamiliar.
15 Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.