I walk past a familiar stranger and smile broadly, but my eyes don't laugh along.

The same familiar stranger's image in the mirror stared back at him with bloodshot eyes.

There was a stranger, oddly familiar, leaning over him.

By accidental ritual, I became a member of a community of familiar strangers who arrived each day to work in silence.

But Jacob felt neither alien nor stranger: rather familiar and comfortable and home.

A familiar stranger is an individual who is recognized from regular activities, but with whom one does not interact.

Somebody who is seen daily, but with whom one does not otherwise communicate, is an example of a familiar stranger.

She got up and followed the familiar stranger out.

A familiar stranger shows up and exclaims: "How good you look!

He'd put all their lives in that familiar stranger's hands, and it was too late now for second thoughts.