strange surroundings
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrangeandsurroundings
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strange
adjective
uk/streɪndʒ/us/streɪndʒ/
unusual and unexpected, or difficult ...
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surroundings
noun[plural]
uk/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/us/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/
the place where someone or something is and the things that are ...
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(Definition ofstrangeandsurroundingsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Obviously, a child of sixteen would not be in the condition to defend herself instrangesurroundingswhen brought before a magistrate.
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They fear—wrongly, perhaps, but still they do fear—that when they get overseas they will find themselves amongstrangesurroundingsand strange people.
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They will already be anxious about their health and worried by finding themselves instrangesurroundings.
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You are very often alone in the car instrangesurroundings.
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In the main, people who appear in magistrates' courts are instrangesurroundings.
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It is not an easy thing to move one's home and start work instrangesurroundings.
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They were merely going intostrangesurroundingsand did not know what was about to happen.
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Boys who come from workingclass homes are at a disadvantage in that they find it difficult to settle down in thestrangesurroundingsfor their first day or so.
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They made their appearance here amongstrangesurroundings, but with their experience of life they found here an opportunity to ventilate the grievances of their fellow-workers.
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So the transferees not only find themselves instrangesurroundings, but they have no sympathy shown to them, and they quickly desire to return to their own districts.
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He became a celebrity mostly against his will, feeling lost in thestrangesurroundings.
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This included helping the wives settle amongstrangesurroundings, visiting cadets in the hospital, and decorating the cadet recreational buildings.
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Janet wakes up and takes in herstrangesurroundings.
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