A stranger walks in off the street and tells you that everything you've worked for was about to change.

Is it all right if a stranger tells your child to stop whining?

She wondered if a stranger could tell that he was difficult, just by looking at him.

The stranger politely told them it was not far up the street.

There was another possible version: the stranger might be telling the truth.

Second, my big tall stranger, she didn't tell me anything.

"I like a sense of humor," the stranger told him, growing serious again within an instant.

"Don't think on it too long," the stranger told him.

To begin with, a stranger would tell you a pack of lies.

A stranger told him about the Slabs, five miles down the road.