Example sentences for: estranged

How can you use “estranged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, estranged from his wife and nearly inseparable from his former deputy, had that relationship hanging over his head when he told the president to withdraw his nomination to be CIA chief.

  • It's hard not to get choked up when you read Busey's promise to his estranged wife, "I'll be there when the restraining order has expired."

  • Could the thoughts of the estranged Royal Couple occasionally turn to an interesting series of collective nouns that apply to their circumstances?

  • Roseanne and her former bodyguard husband became estranged on New Year's Eve, when in an excessive spirit of revelry he threatened to drive his truck through their house.

  • In and out of the emergency room over the course of several nights, Pierce gets chummy with Burke's estranged daughter, Mary (Patricia Arquette), a lost soul whose shellshocked existence (she begins to drift back into drug abuse) seems tied in to her dad's neither-living-nor-dead condition.


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