Example sentences for: outsider

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

  • But the WP disagrees: "Aides said the president's aim was to avoid a lecture about human rights--which he felt the Chinese would dismiss as hectoring by an outsider."

  • Ritchie--who also dances at an all-male strip joint and turns tricks with middle-aged men--is meant to be the quintessential outsider, the inevitable receptacle of whatever ill will is in the air.

  • It also fails to recognize that sometimes, the only effective option is the swift, quasi-imperial intervention of a powerful outsider.

  • "FATHER CHRISTOPHER: You know, Kaethe, even though you are my sister, and this money was legitimately inherited from our parents, and I'm giving it to you in order that you may pay for a lifesaving sweat-gland-transplant, which will finally enable you to dress properly, I'd bet, to an outsider, this whole scene would look awfully fishy."

  • Critics have noted its similarities with Taxi Driver , Scorsese's first collaboration with screenwriter Paul Schrader (who also wrote The Last Temptation of Christ and the later drafts of Raging Bull ). Both movies feature a disturbed outsider cruising the nightmarish, as-yet-ungentrified streets of Manhattan in search of redemption.


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