Sentence examples for strangers show from inspiring English sources

Then word gets out and strangers show up.

Strangers show up on doorsteps, asking to be taken in as children.

He did not, for instance, usually talk about fielding, base running or bunt strategy, but he would make strangers show him their batting swings.

In theory, these scenes establish that Jim is now an all-round good guy, but when three Congolese strangers show up and try to kill him, it's easy to feel that they have right on their side.

The Little Christmas Tree Stella Gibbons, 1940 A writer is looking forward to a solitary Christmas but it feels inconveniently mournful until three exuberant children – strangers – show up on her snowy step and share her festive dinner.

Strangers show up and may be overwhelmed by the sight of long lists of people they did not know, with whom they can only try to identify, just as we all greet unfamiliar names, whose meanings remain elusive.

Sometimes strangers showed up.

She organized a show of her work and a hundred strangers showed up at their home.

(For some women whose pictures were shared without permission, it also meant having to move to avoid strangers showing up at their doors expecting sex).

Five or six years later, the musician was at dinner at a cousin's house when some strangers showed up to join the party.

A month earlier, Omondi told me, a couple of strangers showed up in his village, and explained that they worked for a charity, GiveDirectly, that gave money to poor people without any preconditions.