Truth be told, Cassie couldn't bear to greet strangers in her present state of melancholy.

There was delight in the way he greeted players, colleagues and strangers, who all seemed more melancholy about his departure than he was.

"Is that how your mother greets strangers?"

"And do you always greet strangers with such a threatening display of force?"

There are people who rove the streets greeting strangers in an attempt to assuage what they see as the pain of big-city loneliness.

At the same time, she said, her children had learned to greet strangers of all kinds.

Despite all the preparations, how would these natives greet strangers who wanted to take away some of their citizens for scientific study?

She would claim to recognize details of restaurants she'd never been to, and occasionally greeted total strangers as if she'd met them before.

All the early training, all the years of schooling had drummed into her the proper way to greet strangers.

They greet strangers on the street and wave "Good morning" from their cars.