Sentence examples for stranger from inspiring English sources

Stranger things have happened.

Grenada, it seems, is no stranger to storms - political, natural, or in our case, domestic.

If I do undergo transplant surgery, I know it will mean that someone in his or her darkest moments of loss has reached out to a stranger and offered them a future with the gift of their loved one's organs.

Which makes the muted official response all the stranger.

For the past three years or so, at least one stranger has sought me out pretty much every day to call me a fat bitch (or some pithy variation thereof).

If so, life truly is stranger than fiction.

The stranger offering scholarships was a woman named Godiya, a slim, quietly-spoken 27-year-old whose sister had been among the kidnapped schoolgirls.

So much here prefigures the tropes found in modern winter literature: family and friends gather for warmth and jollity, feasting is the order of the day, good cheer is lubricated by heroic quantities of booze … and then the stranger arrives.

But this new episode introduced a curious character – a nerdy stranger who would go on to corrupt the plot of his life entirely.

You'd feel a great wave of compassion for this total stranger, and still be listening sympathetically 20 minutes later.

Thom Yorke is no stranger to making waves in the digital music world, from the pay-what-you-like release of Radiohead's In Rainbows in 2007, to his fierce criticism of Spotify in 2013, and now the release of his new solo album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes through a partnership with BitTorrent.