How to Use foreigner in a Sentence

foreigner

noun
  • 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
  • And yet we’re treated as strangers, foreigners and aliens in our own land.
    — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • He was named the first foreigner to serve as governor of the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694.
    — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But the narrow, car-free streets that foreigners love aren’t what locals want.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • When a foreigner resides among you in a land, do not mistreat them.
    — Jon Kelvey, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 July 2019
  • 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
  • The ship carried people from 54 countries, and foreigners were to be whisked home.
    — Olga R. Rodriguez, Daisy Nguyen, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Most of the Chinese players watched him warily; they had been warned not to talk to foreigners.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • It is predicted that the number of foreigners will increase more and more in Japan.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • New Zealand has also been plagued with high unemployment figures that have seen foreigners leave the country in droves.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In 2014, Sawiris managed to obtain a unique exemption from the country’s stringent Lex Koller law, which prohibits foreigners from acquiring property in the country.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025

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