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
• 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
• But the narrow, car-free streets that foreigners love aren’t what locals want.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In China, Africans have been amid fears that foreigners could spark a new round of infections.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2020
• The same goes for Canada, where the support for having a foreigner as head of state has also been eroding.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2022
• Unsafe incidents at sea are on the uptick in places where China wants to keep foreigners out.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
• And around Japan, night schools fill a gap for both foreigners and Japanese who missed out on middle school.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• The 29-year-old was just one of the scores of foreigners who became caught up in the attack that has devastated families around the world.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• The majority of victims are local, but foreigners have been seized in the past.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
• The experience of being a Black foreigner in a country governed by its racial gradients darkened his view of Kenya.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
• However, foreigners covered under agreements that seek to protect the property of foreign investors will be paid for both the land and the infrastructure.
  — Farai Mutsaka, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024