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• I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.From the entry spurious
• Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding.From the entry discordant
• He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.From the entry jaunty
• You’ve intruded right into the middle of our nightcap, young man.2020 January 6, Joe Murtagh, Colin Barrett, 01:18:44 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Hector (David Wilmott). From the entry wodge
• Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.2010, Robert Michael Pyle, chapter 18, in Mariposa Road, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 158. From the entry wealthy
• The dominant intruding rocks into the metamorphosed rocks of the Oban massif are granodiorites (Fig. 1).1996, Bart N. Ekwueme, Alfred Kröner, “Emplacement Age of the Uwet Granodiorite and Implications for the Technothermal Evolution of the…. From the entry granodiorite
• Up pops a hypester, intruding on their dinner, to announce that the brew is an "instant" brand.1990, Dan D. Nimmo, James E. Combs, Mediated political realities. From the entry hypester
• As it is, a few comic moments intrude on a storyful of cliches.1969, The New York Times Film Reviews, page 60. From the entry storyful
• Upon this confined, unteleological aspect of existence, the idea of man’s spiritual purpose seldom intruded.1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement, Part 2, Chapter 4. From the entry unteleological
• Killingsworth craved a space where he could chat with his peers without feeling as though he was intruding.2025 September 29, Christina Caron, “One Hour. No Phones. A New Way to Socialize for Gen Z.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry phone-free
• The ungreening world insistently intrudes as natural fact, as cultural locus, and – so pastoral reminds us – as literary tradition.2015, Sabine Wilke, German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination, page 35. From the entry ungreen
• Will the introduction of supplementary flash or flood intrude on a candid picture situation or ruin the mood?2002, Popular Photography. From the entry candid
• Gray was investigating boxes and boxes of fascinating weaponry—grapeshot, chainshot, minié balls, cannonballs, bayonets, landmines—when a voice intruded.2001, Stephen King, Dreamcatcher: A Novel, →ISBN, page 603. From the entry chainshot
• The more you want to be let alone, the more the curious and the nosy pry, peek and intrude.1967, Christian Herald, volume 90, page 19. From the entry peeping tomism
• This body is a phacolith intruded along the gneiss-schist boundary in the trough of a syncline that plunges 16° southeast.1947, Virgil Everett Barnes, Raymond Fillmore Dawson, George Ashworth Parkinson, Building Stones of Central Texas - Volume 19, page 21. From the entry phacolith
• Banded molars can be rotated, moved buccally and lingually, extruded on one side, and intruded on the other side in ways that are not desired.2010, Robert N. Staley, Neil T. Reske, Essentials of Orthodontics: Diagnosis and Treatment, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry buccally
• There is one episode in the novel, however, where questions of racial masquerade intrude on the freewheeling genderbending of the main characters.2000, David John Bell, Barbara M. Kennedy, The Cybercultures Reader, page 452. From the entry genderbending
• I said, ‘Hail Mary, full of grace’ and a whole string of Glory Bes to try and concentrate my mind, but life kept intruding.1997, Laurie Graham, Perfect Meringues, London: Black Swan, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry glory be
• Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.1979, Environment and Planning A, volume 11, page 964. From the entry overreference
• Some of the cars he deflates are parked on the gravelled drives of expensive homes, where security systems trigger floodlights as soon as anyone intrudes on to the grounds.2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry unflustered
• If extroversion drugs lead every stranger, every telesalesman to address me by my first name (too many do already) and intrude a feigned intimacy, give me Grant Wood!2016, David W Stewart, Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American Health Care Policy. From the entry telesalesman
• The plane insolently intruded China's air space over the area of Yunghsing Island and Tung Island in the Kwangtung Province between 13:06 hours and 13:26 hours."1971 August 6, Robert S. Allen, “U. S. Studying To Ease New Tension With Taiwan”, in The Farmville Herald, volume 81, number 92, →ISSN…. From the entry insolently
• Radio Peking said one plane intruded over territorial waters east of Namoa Island and another near Yunghsing Is­land, both off the coast of the southern province of Kwangtung.1968 February 28, “Peking Accuses U.S. Of Intruding”, in The Lincoln Star, volume 66, number 129, Lincoln, Nebraska, sourced from Tokyo…. From the entry Namoa
• He felt he was intruding, and hurried past the door with the coloured glass panes into the Book Room, which smelled mustily of old paper and worm-eaten wood.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1. From the entry mustily

Meaning of intrude

1. verb To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.
2. verb To force in.

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Questions about intrude in a sentence

How do you use intrude in a sentence?

Intrude is used as a verb. For example: “The noise of machinery intruded on an otherwise quiet morning.”

What is a short sentence with intrude?

“The noise of machinery intruded on an otherwise quiet morning.”

What does intrude mean?

Intrude means to thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.