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How to use encroach in a sentence

19 example sentences · verb, noun

Encroach means to seize, appropriate. Example: “I won’t encroach on your time any longer.”

Examples of encroach by meaning

verbTo intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.

  • I won’t encroach on your time any longer.
  • He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
  • Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.

nounEncroachment.

  • Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.2002, Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism, JHU Press, published 2002, page 116

More sentences with encroach

  • The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.From the entry turn back
  • She could hardly see anything in the encroaching darkness.From the entry encroaching
  • Church Street has been reclaimed from vendors who had encroached every bit of pedestrian walk.2024 October 12, @bykarthikreddy, Twitter. From the entry originality
  • We encroach deeper into the furthest extent of the heliosheath, which thins out all the time.2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 388. From the entry heliosheath
  • The tailswing radius may encroach over an active traffic lane or face interference from an obstruction.1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and derricks, →ISBN, page 268. From the entry tailswing
  • It was an extraskeletal osteosarcoma – a bone tumour – which would have encroached on its cerebellum and its brainstem.2009, Charles Foster, “Who’s Right? Evidence and the Lack of It”, in The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin, London: Hodder &…. From the entry gorgosaurus
  • Upstarts like the snack menu, with its little offerings of polpettine and deviled eggs, are encroaching from the flank.2007 December 5, Kim Severson, “Is the Entree Heading for Extinction?”, in New York Times. From the entry polpettine
  • Since my days as a student, the city has encroached upon Salpetriere so it no longer has its country-estate disguise.2006, Kate Horsley, Black Elk in Paris, page 3. From the entry unembracing
  • As the population increased, the forest land was encroached upon.2005, C. A. Gregory, “Chapter III: Land as the supreme good”, in Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange, Taylor…. From the entry cultivator
  • The ministry also summoned officials from the county of Shizhu in southwest China’s Chongqing for allowing an industrial park to encroach on protected nature reserves.2018 June 4, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters…. From the entry Shizhu
  • This encroaching “atlantification” of the Eurasian Basin represents an essential step toward a new Arctic climate state, with a substantially greater role for Atlantic inflows.2017 April, Igor V. Polyakov, Andrey V. Pnyushkov, Matthew B. Alkire, Igor M. Ashik, Till M. Baumann, Eddy C. Carmack, Ilona Goszczko…. From the entry atlantification
  • She remained stone-still, ready for anything, sending her heightened senses in search of who or what was encroaching on her personal space.2015, Sara Humphreys, Vampires Never Cry Wolf. From the entry stone-still
  • The devil's rope was originally designed to keep cows from roaming, Indians from encroaching, and the cowboys from singing their lonesome ballads.2011, Linh Dinh, Love Like Hate: A Novel, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry devil's rope
  • Short-day effects were seen to result when light was restricted to the photophil, while long-day effects were produced when light encroached into scotophil (figure 1.2).2010, Randy J. Nelson, David L. Denlinger, David E. Somers, Photoperiodism: The Biological Calendar, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry scotophil
  • The Battaks of Sumatra believe in mountain-dwarfs hostile to encroaching mortals, who carry off men or women, or have amours with handsome mortals.1912, J.A. MacCulloch, “Fairy”, in James Hastings, editor, Encyclopædia or Religion and Ethics, volume V, New York: T. & T. Clarke, page…. From the entry Battak

Meaning of encroach

  1. verb To seize, appropriate.
  2. verb To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.
  3. verb To advance gradually beyond due limits.

Full definition of encroach

Questions about encroach in a sentence

How do you use encroach in a sentence?
Encroach is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I won’t encroach on your time any longer.”
What is a short sentence with encroach?
“Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.”
What does encroach mean?
Encroach means to seize, appropriate.

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