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How to use infringe in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb

Infringe means to break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc. Example: “Our product designs around the existing patents to avoid infringing them.”

Examples of infringe by meaning

verbTo break in or encroach on something.

  • infringing on my personal freedom

More sentences with infringe

  • Our product designs around the existing patents to avoid infringing them.From the entry around
  • Zoning laws may infringe on the rights of infrastructuralists.From the entry infrastructuralist
  • NHL says it's infringing to use the keyword NHL in your app about the NHL.2011 May 11, “NHL Says It's Infringing To Use The Keyword NHL In Your App About The NHL”, in Techdirt. From the entry infringing
  • Putting obviously infringing stuff onto the mirror network is just begging for trouble.2005 May 21, Michael K. Edwards, “Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"”, in…. From the entry Napster
  • Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.1962, Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880-1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry, Columbia University Press, page 378. From the entry foxhole
  • Interviewing then quoting gambrinous informants for other people to read presents an opportunity to infringe on or violate research ethics.2019, John W. McEwen, People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars: An Ethnographic Study in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lexington Books…. From the entry gambrinous
  • Doing so can infringe on their rights.2017, K. Allen, “Easily Ms. Handled”, in Remembering What I Forgot, [Bradenton, Fla.]: Gwenlee Publishing, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry al
  • I would be happy to upload and then download the despaghettified code so as not to infringe licence regulations.1993 January 19, ro...@ruchem.ru.ac.za, “spaghetti”, in comp.lang.fortran (Usenet). From the entry despaghettify
  • The fact that a steel-rollered machine, so long as it remains steel-rollered, did not infringe and was capable of lawful use as a complete machine in that state was irrelevant.2013, Paul Torremans, Holyoak and Torremans Intellectual Property Law, page 157. From the entry rollered
  • This with a small fraction of sulphur, which is of no materiality, is the combination made use of by the defendant, who thus admittingly infringe, if the patent is valid.1912, The Metal Industry, volume 4, numbers 1-3. From the entry admittingly

Meaning of infringe

  1. verb To break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.
  2. verb To break in or encroach on something.
  3. verb To furnish or embellish with a fringe.

Full definition of infringe

Questions about infringe in a sentence

How do you use infringe in a sentence?
Infringe is used as a verb. For example: “Our product designs around the existing patents to avoid infringing them.”
What is a short sentence with infringe?
“infringing on my personal freedom”
What does infringe mean?
Infringe means to break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.

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