Example Sentences

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Three differences are said to have estranged El Mayo from the chief.

From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2018

Instead, they have estranged many career staffers who serve veterans day-to-day.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2018

The pain and friction of his unexpected divorce have estranged him from Peru and strained many of his old friendships.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2018

Perhaps he was alluding to the several hundred pinpricks and quarrels which have estranged Bucharest and Moscow.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had feared that Lucius by his offence might have estranged Sir Peregrine against herself; but that at any rate was not the case.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony