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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FOREIGNER
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.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
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.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
3  But Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
4  Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
6  The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  She had an idea that he would have to be a foreigner: not an Englishman, still less an Irishman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
8  To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
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
10  The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a "new man," despite his nearly ten years' residence, and a foreigner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
12  He was still a foreigner, and he expected to remain one.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  This, in connection with his costume, strengthened the good woman in the belief that he was a foreigner.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
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.
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.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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.