The phrase "a foreign terrain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unfamiliar or alien environment, whether literal or metaphorical.
Example: "As she stepped into the bustling city, she felt as if she were navigating a foreign terrain, completely out of her element."
Alternatives: "an unfamiliar landscape" or "a strange environment".
Initially, though, his interests kept him firmly on the physical science side of things, covering particles and planets, a foreign terrain that often seems enviably organized, if a little dry, to those of us in the mushier, less rigorous zones of health.
During their time abroad, our Fellows are guided by exceptional in-country staff who combine the cultural and linguistic fluencies to navigate a foreign terrain with the patience, intuition, and empathy to effectively mentor each Fellow over the course of his/her individual journey.
But in the world of medicine, patients are amateurs who must negotiate a scary foreign terrain.
Leaf litter along with the rest of the forest floor is a particularly complex foreign terrain and harbors a variety of predators that are not found in the canopy.
What results is a thoroughly enjoyable overview of a familiar yet remarkably foreign terrain.
The historians and philosophers occasionally led the scientists on a merry chase through foreign terrain.
Family life is the heartland of the unknown, and it only takes a moment for the plates to shatter, the crystal to crack, the bed to become unmade; the landscape can become foreign terrain in an instant, the familiar unrecognizable in a heartbeat.
While big ocean shipping companies owning and/or operating terminals and ports on foreign terrain is a standard operating procedure for the industry — Denmark's Maersk line is running terminals in 36 countries, Switzerland's Mediterranean Shipping Co. is operating in 22 countries, and Dubai Ports World is in 40 countries, for example — these are generally mono-faceted, shipping-centric operations.
My dad sat there next to me, familiar with this glistening and foreign terrain.
Now, hearing of my brother's forays into crime, his scrapes with police and street thugs, I was scared, unsteady on foreign terrain.
More ears mean more opportunities for artists who don't fit the mainstream mold, but this invites the uninitiated to rush to find footing in foreign terrain.
