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How to use foreigner in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Foreigner means a person from a foreign country. Example: “Heterography in English makes it difficult for foreigners to learn pronunciation.”

Examples of foreigner by meaning

nounA person from a foreign country.

  • For a student of American history and a foreigner like myself, it is easier to understand all these extremisms of conscience.1971 October 6, Alberto R. Oliva, “The American Sense of Guilt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2024
  • Though foreigners did play some part in fighting as mercenaries for Gadhafi during the bloody Libyan war, the IOM and local leaders in Chad say the vast majority of Chadians, like Mohammed, were working to send remittances home.2012 April 18, David McKenzie, “Chad’s migrant workers pay price for Libya conflict”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 01 Jan...

More sentences with foreigner

  • Heterography in English makes it difficult for foreigners to learn pronunciation.From the entry heterography
  • Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.From the entry run through
  • The pavement markings on the street were confusing to foreigners.From the entry on the street
  • That rule only applies to foreigners.From the entry apply
  • One sure sign of indecency is criticizing foreigners constantly, but remaining silent about the problems within your own land, or by your own people, or both.From the entry indecency
  • For foreigners, it is a unique insight into the quintessentially Japanese experience of trainspotting.2025 April 8, Joshua Korber Hoffman, “The ‘Shinkansen kiss’: Japan’s little-known rail spectacle that attracts trainspotters from around…. From the entry colloquially
  • Especially in the company of foreigners the Dutch tend to run their country down.2016, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Peter Geschiere, Evelien Tonkens, The Culturalization of Citizenship: Belonging and Polarization in a…. From the entry self-abasement
  • Hostility to foreigners extends well beyond the anonymous netizenry of China.2013, Ben Chu, Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You’ve Heard About China is Wrong, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry netizenry
  • Or you can set your hair on fire and blame Chinese foreigners.2012 April 5, Allen Garr, “Blaming Chinese for high house prices in Vancouver is racist”, in Vancouver Courier, Canada, retrieved 22 Sep…. From the entry set one's hair on fire
  • As a foreigner, you are not welcome anywhere near the temple.2012, Zach Weinersmith, Trial of the Clone, Breadpig, Inc., →ISBN, page 195. From the entry beastkeeper
  • The foreigner could simply reply with a “Hey Jose” if one felt so inclined.2012, Duncan Alexander McKenzie, The Unlucky Country: The Republic of the Philippines in the 21st Century, BalboaPress, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry hey Joe
  • It's suckworthy for foreigners, though, since the Poison is a lot less common outside South Africa.2011, Holden Blunts, The Quotable Stoner. From the entry suckworthy
  • Foreigners wouldn't know that some ratfolk can suck it down by the barrel.2011, George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Down These Strange Streets, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry ratfolk
  • This site is geared toward young foreigners living in Mexico, especially el DF.2007, MTV Best of Mexico, page 88. From the entry Mexpat
  • Many foreigners claim to have guanxi with their Chinese counterparts; few actually do.2005, China-Britain Business Council. From the entry guanxi
  • I described them as foreigners — with Roman hands and Russian fingers.2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies, page 366. From the entry Roman hands and Russian fingers
  • Foreigner who marries a Senegalese is granted permanent residency and can apply for citizenship by naturalization.2001, Citizenship Laws of the World, Amer Immigration Lawyers Assn, page 173. From the entry Senegalese
  • In addition, they kept a watch on political agitators and foreigners arriving and departing at the port.1998, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial Power and Popular Politics, page 208. From the entry agitator
  • Rather, you might think of it as the foreigners’ ghetto in the Shihlin district of northern Taipei.1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152…. From the entry Shihlin
  • For dessert, the Thais favour dishes which foreigners often find excessively sweet.1993, Ben Davies, “Food and Drink”, in Thailand (Thomas Cook Travellers), Basingstoke, Hampshire: AA Publishing, →ISBN, page 165, column 2. From the entry riceflour
  • That some foreigners get beaten—nobody has an ear for that now.1990 August 19, Uwe Stelbrink, quotee, “Fear and uncertainty breed xenophobia in E. Germany”, in Democrat and Chronicle, volume 158…. From the entry ear
  • Lüshun, formerly called Port Arthur, is a large naval base seldom visited by foreigners.1989, “The Northeast”, in All China, Revised edition, Passport Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60. From the entry Lüshun
  • Most foreigners believe that Japanese is sparse in maledicta, which is not true.1987, John Solt, “Japanese Sexual Maledicta”, in Reinhold Aman, editor, The Best of Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal…. From the entry maledicta
  • It is not difficult to collect examples of unidiomatic English used by foreigners.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 169. From the entry unidiomatic
  • “The bokor who knows the magic can make anyone a zombi—a Haitian living abroad, a foreigner.”1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47. From the entry bocor
  • The Qingnian Road Neighbourhood in the Lianhu District in particular has received foreigners.1984, Simon Holledge, “Period Six: Xi'an under the People's Republic”, in Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 86. From the entry Lianhu
  • No wonder most foreigners go away with the feeling that you people are just bacchanalists!1981, Yvonne Jack, Don't Push the Sister, page 165. From the entry bacchanalist
  • Contrasting the luxurious life of the foreigners with the overcrowded, fetid, waterless existence of the Arabs.1978 April 29, Robert Etherington, “Cast As Decandents, Again”, in Gay Community News, page 13. From the entry waterless
  • The maccheroni are of course excellent, but most foreigners cannot live on maccheroni alone.1926, Edward Hutton, Cities of Sicily, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 112. From the entry maccheroni
  • “The ritual undressing of the chilip,” a friend had called it, chilip (“grey hair”) being the local word for foreigners.2025 June 17, Betsy Bolton, In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon: Happiness, History, and Environment in a Changing Bhutan, Lever Press…. From the entry chilip
  • He is repugnant (stout, bald, elephantesque), and an ungrateful foreigner.2020, Yehuda Moraly, Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France, Sussex Academic…. From the entry elephantesque
  • Zhenbao is under military administration, so tourists are sometimes barred from the island itself (foreigners all the more so).2019 December 7, “Tense times recalled”, in The Economist, volume 433, number 9172, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42. From the entry Zhenbao
  • In the smallish Thai city where I live, most ex-pats, foreigners or Farangs put little stock in learning Thai.2017 February 20, “Language Learning: Is Fluency Worth It?”, in Listen and Learn Blog, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2017. From the entry Tarzan English
  • Many foreigners who learn to speak High German complain that Swiss people only reluctantly reply in High German.2016, Nicole Egger, Hoi: Your New Swiss German Survival Guide, page 15. From the entry High German
  • Probably mostly foreigners living in Japan and westaboos.2014 September 10, Katie Ujihisa (@sandkatt), Twitter. From the entry westaboo
  • Foreigners who qualify for H1-Bs are exactly the type of workers the country needs, the all-stars of their industries.2014 April 3, Machir Stull and Matthew Denhart, “Visas for excellence: Tanaka & fixing immigration”, in New York Post. From the entry H1-B
  • For some foreigners this “Hey Joe” greeting is considered a term of endearment, a friendly greeting, and a welcome.2012, Duncan Alexander McKenzie, The Unlucky Country: The Republic of the Philippines in the 21st Century, BalboaPress, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry hey Joe
  • As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise.2011, Owen Stanwood, The Empire Reformed. From the entry Bostoner

Meaning of foreigner

  1. noun A person from a foreign country.
  2. noun A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.

Full definition of foreigner

Questions about foreigner in a sentence

How do you use foreigner in a sentence?
Foreigner is used as a noun. For example: “Heterography in English makes it difficult for foreigners to learn pronunciation.”
What is a short sentence with foreigner?
“That rule only applies to foreigners.”
What does foreigner mean?
Foreigner means a person from a foreign country.

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