"become alien to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone or something which has become foreign or unfamiliar to a person. Example: After years of living abroad, he felt that he had become alien to the culture he grew up in.
We all face the same questions of political existence, yet their way of answering them has become alien to us.
Overnight my own flesh had become alien to me, the saboteur of all my hopes and dreams.
I collected, borrowed and conflated every signal for femininity, wealth and power into this perfume, which, over time, has become alien to me". 4. Smells can be deceiving.
Through sex and stimulants and destructive behaviour amid all the idleness and uncertainty, even these trapped souls experience moments of furious, feral vitality that become alien to us in later life.
Social identities are not forced onto atomistic individuals who then necessarily become alien to themselves.
As a result the very notation of the work has become alien to contemporary students of logic, and that has become a barrier to the study of Principia Mathematica.
The danger comes when the debate is limited to people who share similar assumptions and language, and becomes alien to the public at large.
The prayers drilled into me from my Catholic upbringing were still tucked away in some brain folds so, while still isolated, I repeated Hail Marys until the words became alien to my ears.
Rather than take the context of the text for granted, we seek to find the limits of meaning built into the text, the point at which it becomes alien to us, and in so doing, we discover something new about it.
At the insistence of Council members who said Broadway has become alien territory to New Yorkers of modest means, the plan included a provision that would dedicate some of the money raised from developers to providing discount tickets for residents of neighborhoods above 96th Street in Manhattan and in the city's other boroughs.
Not many actresses get the chance to become alien warriors, let alone part of their own alien language.
