How to Use foreigner in a Sentence

foreigner

noun
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  • I can tell by your accent you're a foreigner in these parts.
  • Being able to look with the eyes of a foreigner is maybe the best way to see ourselves.
    — Ilaria Ravarino, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • In the depths of the discussion, the foreigner asks a question.
    — Greg Story, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • Jana runs to save a life of a foreigner who can take her far away from her home town.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Nice touch by the French to respect a foreigner’s game.
    — Sean Gregory/paris, TIME, 27 July 2024
  • Yet poor treatment of foreigners in the town hasn’t gone away.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Critics attacked him in the press as a foreigner and a Jew.
    — John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Maybe for a foreigner the best villa could be room 202, which is higher and has a full sea view.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 30 July 2021
  • The source of the funds was a corrupt foreigner, in some cases likely a tool of a foreign state.
    — The Editors, National Review, 17 May 2023
  • Biden doesn’t spend all his time blaming the foreigners.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The faded roof paint, something with the sign's font: it was clearly owned by a foreigner.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • The two warring sides agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire this week to allow time for more foreigners and civilians to flee.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the most interesting things to observe were the short and long-stay foreigners.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2024
  • But the narrow, car-free streets that foreigners love aren’t what locals want.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Could it be turned into a carnival, put on for the gaze of foreigners?
    — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Looking back, the years around the 2008 Olympics may have been the best time to be a foreigner wanting to understand China.
    — Jennifer Conrad, Wired, 6 Feb. 2022
  • For decades, the canyon and nearby Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city, were off the radar for foreigners.
    — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2023
  • At the heart of the conflict, as presented to the player, is the idea of western foreigners entering Japan.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Roughly half of the 15 buyers at the project so far are foreigners, according to a salesperson for the project.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Thousands of foreigners from all over the world have signed up to fight in Ukraine – both for Kyiv and for Russian mercenary groups.
    — Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 7 Aug. 2024
  • To fund these wars, Congolese leaders sold mine sites to foreigners.
    — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For all their rhetoric about human rights and the laws of war, the foreigners had chosen him to pacify Kandahar.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The same goes for Canada, where the support for having a foreigner as head of state has also been eroding.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Unsafe incidents at sea are on the uptick in places where China wants to keep foreigners out.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • And around Japan, night schools fill a gap for both foreigners and Japanese who missed out on middle school.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The 29-year-old was just one of the scores of foreigners who became caught up in the attack that has devastated families around the world.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The majority of victims are local, but foreigners have been seized in the past.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • At least 13 are Israeli; the rest are said to be foreigners from places including Thailand.
    — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The obvious way is to buy Chinese stocks—but there’s a big risk here, since foreigners can’t do this directly.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Nepal’s ethnic Sherpas have lived in the high altitudes of the Himalayas for generations and long served as guides and porters, whose local expertise has been invaluable for foreigners attempting climbs in the area.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024

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