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Example sentences for "estranged"

Lexicographically close words:
estoppel; estos; estoy; estoyent; estrade; estrangement; estrangements; estranges; estranging; estray
  1. She received him kindly, there was no sign of an estranged heart, but she only received; she did not invite, nor follow, nor linger about him.

  2. A great many, a sadly increasing number, are more or less forsaking the Gospel and becoming estranged from Christian truth.

  3. Whatever she might be, her mother could not be estranged from her, and could not have an interest entirely detached from hers.

  4. In the mutual animosity excited by Aunt Annie, those who had become estranged were reconciled almost immediately.

  5. My health suffered, before my heart was entirely estranged by the loathsome information; could I then have returned to his sullied arms, but as a victim to the prejudices of mankind, who have made women the property of their husbands?

  6. Meanwhile, Roderick seemed aware how generally he had become the subject of curiosity and conjecture, and, with a morbid repugnance to such notice, or to any notice whatsoever, estranged himself from all companionship.

  7. Possibly we may even succeed in bringing back this miserable child within the limits of ordinary nature, from which her father's madness has estranged her.

  8. While still in office he had estranged the Radical stalwarts by his Imperialist foreign policy and his heretical view of the necessity of converting the "predominant partner," England, before attempting to revive Home Rule.

  9. In a brief year Punch was thoroughly estranged by the methods of the militants and their harrying of Ministers.

  10. The time came, however, when all three of the special witnesses became estranged from Joseph Smith and departed from the Church.

  11. President Williams became disaffected with many others, due to speculations and financial troubles in the fore part of the year 1837, and permitted himself to become estranged from the work.

  12. I can no longer lament that I stand estranged from the objects and pursuits of my race.

  13. Now, as I find that her mind is estranged from me, and think that there would be no agreement between us in future, why should I take her back?

  14. In the first place, then, that his feelings are estranged from us, the thing itself declares.

  15. Since Lato has been married he has been quite estranged from his former associations.

  16. Lina," he murmurs, "we have become very much estranged of late.

  17. The boy was just fifteen months old when the first real quarrel took place between Lato and his wife, and estranged them for life.

  18. He has been a trifle estranged from Madame Roger since his marriage to Maria, but he sometimes takes little Maurice to see her.

  19. This most typical of Irish land-owning gentlemen had been forced to sever himself from his class and even to injure his class, and it was not by advocacy of self-government that he estranged so close a friend as Lord Sligo.

  20. Thorlogh was old and could not last long; Dermid of Leinster was for ever estranged from him; the new arbitrary divisions, though made with the general consent, satisfied no one.

  21. I felt as if the melody were a celestial atmosphere in which our mutual thoughts and feelings rose and intermingled; a harmonious communion of soul with soul banishing all that had hitherto divided estranged and tormented us.

  22. I carry his image undefaced in my heart, not distorted by illness, and the last agony, nor estranged from me by insanity.

  23. Now that it is decided that I am to live, I am perhaps quite as much estranged from you as when I rashly uttered the words that pained you so much.

  24. With her own blue eyes Hellayne should witness the love of him she had so madly followed, estranged by the beauty of Theodora, whose lure no mortal might resist.

  25. Then it is Theodora's hand that has sundered us in the flesh as her witches' beauty had estranged our hearts.

  26. Your Uncle has never been devoted to the Church, and has profited little by her teaching; but he is not estranged from her so much, that he need in honour hesitate to have use and advantage from her charitable breast.

  27. For weeks she had been sleepless, and low, and feverish, dwelling on her wrongs in solitude, and estranged from her own daughter.

  28. Then he would have wished to have his last rest dishonoured, and his daughter estranged from her own mother.

  29. Auntie understood all about it in a moment.

  30. But just then another person came upon the scene.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estranged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.