The landscape was estranging.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

My 'good-natured friends' now carefully informed me of the multitude of secret enemies who were ever employed in estranging the Prince's mind from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Mary Robinson] Reference

It is a estranging experience, a kind of culture clash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

Yet this estranging moment initiates a centripetal return, a homecoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gadamer's Aesthetics] Reference

An over-riding theme had been the fear of estranging the next generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Nor can we succeed in estranging Krishna from the Pandavas by any spies of ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Afrikaners than expected, "and where our anger was not experienced as estranging.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Anthropology conquers the estranging function of the intellect by institutionalizing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero of our Time] Reference

Mulroney took one party and made it into three by estranging western Canadians and French Canadians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just another step towards a Republican style conservative party in Canada] Reference

My friend's impending death is something new for both of us - rough, awkward, searing and estranging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona Ackerman: How To Talk About Death] Reference

But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Mother, white and German, ran off with Mr. S. at age 17, thus estranging herself from her parents in Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

My son adores his wife and to keep the peace and avoid estranging him, I don't say anything to either of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Amy] Reference

But this joke has a germ of truth with regards to the underlying fantastical and estranging nature of the Biblical text.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1)] Reference

Very soon she had to face the unpleasant fact that by pressing for woman suffrage now, she was estranging many abolitionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference

I found reading through the tributes to Russert an weirdly estranging experience: was this the same man they were talking of?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Russert Has Passed Away] Reference

It is revelatory — because re-estranging — to encounter our closest companions in contexts unlike those in which we usually confer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Sex and Marriage] Reference

While watching it is estranging for anyone from a western communicative context, the force of the event and the focus cannot be ignored.    From Wordnik.com.  [L is for Lockstep « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

The really important thing, however, is that the linguistic innovation is not just situationally estranging; it is structurally integral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

And does not the fact that he had courage to cross the estranging deep thereon give graphic proof of the inhospitality of his native soil?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

She had changed; she was in evening dress; there was something odd about her — perhaps it was the effect of the evening dress estranging her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Years] Reference

It had an estranging effect to talk about poverty in the environment of abundance of the artefacts donated by popstars such as beautiful guitars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-09-01] Reference

Madame de Maintenon had engaged her to place the Dauphin upon good terms with the filles d'honneur, and she finished by estranging him altogether from his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]

Asmal was immediately criticised by David Graaff (NP) who said he was estranging the business community by denigrating them and accusing them of corrupt practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In the course of attaining an education and exploring the world more broadly, I was in some ways estranging myself from the people I'd loved and known best in my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed] Reference

More impassable than the gulf of distance with the estranging sea, more separating than the gulf of death, is the great gulf fixed between souls through deceit and shame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference

He was hopeful that "when different races are thrown together, and made to interact, they repel one another, estranging themselves, even as they believe they are mixing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Victim or Victor?] Reference

Theater and spectatorship concern her here, as she considers the outward signs and bodily extroversions of anger that may captivate an audience even while estranging them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romantic Anger and Byron] Reference

She certainly is an expert at estranging herself from her viewers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

Azerbaijani MP: We should adopt new law to prevent ideas estranging people from national values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today.Az] Reference

In the sixteenth century painting was not looked upon with the estranging reverence paid to it now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition] Reference

Chièvres followed his advantage by estranging Maximilian from his daughter and by urging the States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day] Reference

In silence she upbraided herself for having been the cause of estranging from each other mother and son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them] Reference

He is at his best when he writes in revelatory, estranging detail about the way things look, feel, sound, work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

Constable of Bourbon, we can only wonder at his thus estranging a powerful friend through mere petulance and perversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

Tinemouth, her groundless malice and Miss Euphemia's folly have failed in estranging either your confidence or the esteem of Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference