so alien
Frequency: 8.532.1 per million words
Used to emphasize how unfamiliar or strange something is.
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Examples (10)
- The concept of living without the internet feels so alien to the younger generation.
- Stepping into the ancient city, the customs seemed so alien to her modern sensibilities.
- After years of living abroad, his own hometown felt so alien.
- The idea of an arranged marriage is so alien to many Western cultures.
- He remembered a time when computers were so alien that people were afraid to touch them.
- In the distant future, Earth's gravity might feel so alien to humans born on Mars.
- The language of quantum physics is so alien that it defies common sense.
- To the city dweller, the silence of the countryside was so alien it was unsettling.
- Why does this simple tradition feel so alien to me now?
- Her way of thinking is so alien from mine; we can never truly agree.