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Example sentences for "total stranger"

  • First Elizabeth was busy, and you came to me last night, and you are a total stranger.

  • In any event, do not bite a total stranger on an empty stomach.

  • In what other town in this whole republic would a pair of pantaloons be thus left in the complete power of a total stranger, a stranger, too, to whom pantaloons were a great boon?

  • Even then, when I knew nothing by comparison with what I know now, I looked at the family lawyer with an interest which I had never felt before in the presence of any man breathing who was a total stranger to me.

  • The chief person in the adventure was a total stranger to me, and may perhaps be a total stranger to you; but she certainly mentioned the name of the late Mrs. Fairlie in terms of the sincerest gratitude and regard.

  • He appeared a total stranger to every thing which usually bears the appellation of pleasure.

  • Mr. Falkland did not immediately recognise Miss Melville; and the person of Grimes was that of a total stranger, whom he did not recollect to have ever seen.

  • He had nothing spiteful or malicious in his disposition, but he was a total stranger to tenderness; he could not feel for those refinements in others, of which he had no experience in himself.

  • She was a total stranger to dissimulation; and she could not conceive that any one beheld the subject of her admiration with less partiality than herself.

  • I perceived that, as a total stranger, I ought to keep myself as much out of sight as possible, and hurried around the house to a post by the garden-fence, whence I could overlook the chapel and the cemetery.

  • For the first time, for many a long year past, he felt personally interested in a total stranger.

  • Here is a young lady," he said, "who is a total stranger to me.

  • The second proposal came through the house agent, and proceeded from a total stranger.

  • To me, as to him, she was a total stranger.

  • This accidental resemblance of a total stranger to Magdalen fills me every now and then with the most horrible misgivings--merely because Mr. Noel Vanstone's name happens to be mixed up with it.

  • It was occupied by a new-comer, a total stranger, and the three women recently sharing her section and more than sharing her cherries were now in animated chat across the aisle.

  • To nine out of ten among the assembly the young officer was a total stranger.

  • Stuyvesant came to them, to be sure, a total stranger, but Vinton had long known him, and that was enough.

  • Any man who has a heart in him, who sees a lady whose apparel has become disarranged in such a manner that she cannot see it, will, though she be a total stranger, tell her of her misfortune, so she can fix up and not be stared at.

  • If we have done wrong in talking with a total stranger, who took us for a lady friend, we are willing to die.

  • Here she is regarded as a total stranger, while she really stands in the closest connection with you; and is forced to keep up a constant succession of deceptions.

  • In our country a young girl would hardly have read a total stranger such a lecture.

  • I am to receive a total stranger, who, as you acknowledge, is entirely destitute of introductions?

  • Must I explain to you, as to a total stranger?

  • I cannot possibly permit you to take so much trouble for a total stranger.

  • Dare I, almost a total stranger, intrude here, and seek to pry behind the veil these old people had drawn between their grandchild and the world?

  • That she was not abashed, not even startled by the sudden appearance of a total stranger, I attributed rightly to her mode of life, which was untrammeled by convention, thoroughly natural, and free from the restraints artificiality begets.

  • I came to these knobs a total stranger, intending to treat everybody right.

  • In a vaguely aristocratic country like England, people would never dream of telling a total stranger that he was a member of the Upper Ten.

  • If he was a detective pretending to be an astronomer, why did he tell a total stranger that he was a detective two minutes after saying he was an astronomer?

  • Ransford cause flowers to be laid on the grave of a total stranger?

  • She would do anything that seemed good to Ransford--but all the same she wondered at this somewhat unusual show of interest in a total stranger.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "total stranger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    best girl; constitutional republic; devote themselves; executive ability; follows that; full work; little embarrassed; royal warrant; shall first; sized onions; take command; take this; total abstainer; total area; total cost; total darkness; total depravity; total employment; total force; total ignorance; total length; total loss; total population; total prohibition; total vote; total weight