Examples (10)
- They spoke a language totally alien to him.
- The idea of an arranged marriage was totally alien to her.
- Jealousy was a feeling that was totally alien to his nature.
- After a lifetime in the countryside, the bustling city felt totally alien.
- The customs of the remote tribe seemed totally alien to the explorers.
- His way of thinking has always been totally alien to mine.
- To my grandmother, the concept of a smartphone is totally alien.
- He found the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies, a totally alien environment.
- Her sudden burst of anger was totally alien to her usually calm personality.
- The principles of quantum mechanics can seem totally alien to those accustomed to classical physics.