How to Use intrude in a Sentence
intrude
verb
- The plane intruded into their airspace.
- Excuse me, sir. I don't mean to intrude, but you have a phone call.
- He didn't want to intrude upon their conversation.
- Would I be intruding if I came along with you?
- Reporters constantly intruded into the couple's private life.
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Lamb was not one to intrude or to object to his guest’s claims.
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Nathan Taylor Pemberton,
The New Republic,
26 June 2019
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Then the marsh plants start to die, and saltwater intrudes to push them over.
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Joan Meiners,
ProPublica,
28 Dec. 2019
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The tree had grown around the intruding plank, which Kobayashi has since removed.
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Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone,
New York Times,
20 Oct. 2023
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By then, though, ill health had begun to intrude on his work.
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BostonGlobe.com,
2 Dec. 2019
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Some of them are close to 200 pounds and well over 6 feet tall, their heads intruding onto the walls.
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Byron McCauley,
Cincinnati.com,
17 Oct. 2019
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But regardless of the change of scenery, nature found a way to intrude.
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Ben Flanagan | [email protected],
al,
12 July 2022
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The warm layer has intruded upon most of this part of the coast for most of the years the team has been dropping probes.
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Jonathan Nackstrand,
National Geographic,
15 Oct. 2019
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My thought was to ignore the sneeze so as not to intrude on their privacy.
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Abigail Van Buren,
oregonlive,
5 Aug. 2022
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But, like Allen, Dave Wommack doesn’t intrude too much on his son’s work.
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Zach Osterman,
Indianapolis Star,
6 Sep. 2019
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Now, the trio are joined by Jupiter, and the four planets can be seen by the naked eye in a straight line for the rest of April, as long as city lights don't intrude.
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Jordan Mendoza,
USA TODAY,
17 Apr. 2022
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All of those questions, intrude on the core functions of the President.
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Fox News,
8 May 2018
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There is society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
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Jill Gleeson,
Country Living,
28 Mar. 2023
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But there comes a point when reality has to intrude, when the chaos has to give way to order.
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New York Times,
4 May 2022
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Both of those can intrude on everything that goes on in a person’s life.
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Sandy Bauers,
Philly.com,
21 Dec. 2017
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But violence intrudes even here when a woman is found shot dead on the beach.
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Tom Nolan,
WSJ,
13 Dec. 2018
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From now on, the days shorten, football intrudes, the dull throb of daily obligation gets in the way.
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Los Angeles Times,
29 Aug. 2019
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Bike lanes, used not only to provide for cyclists but also to intrude on car space, do the same.
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Christopher Bonanos,
Daily Intelligencer,
30 Mar. 2018
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But the news kept intruding—and so did President Trump.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
27 June 2019
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So, go ahead and intrude past your typical comfort point, but on a small scale.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
7 July 2023
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Some in the crowd began closing or covering their eyes as if not to intrude on her grief.
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New York Times,
20 Jan. 2022
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The first proposed mine to intrude on the Sami’s world was along the coast, where reindeer calves are born in the summer in Kvalsund, Norway.
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Juliana Hanle,
Scientific American,
18 Nov. 2019
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But when Swift dares intrude on the NFL, a segment of people lose their ever-loving minds.
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USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2024
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The physical world seems to intrude on the main characters and entrap them.
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Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
1 Sep. 2023
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Smartphones aren’t making kids smarter But phones aren’t just intruding on kids’ time outside class.
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Kara Alaimo,
CNN,
2 Sep. 2024
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There will be objections that the last thing the country wants is a dysfunctional national legislature intruding further in the business of Americans.
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David Blumenthal and Sara Rosenbaum,
STAT,
6 Aug. 2024
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