How to Use intrude in a Sentence

intrude

verb
Definition of intrudenext
Synonyms for intrudenext
  • Excuse me, sir. I don't mean to intrude, but you have a phone call.
  • Reporters constantly intruded into the couple's private life.
  • Then the marsh plants start to die, and saltwater intrudes to push them over.
    — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The tree had grown around the intruding plank, which Kobayashi has since removed.
    — Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • By then, though, ill health had begun to intrude on his work.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • But regardless of the change of scenery, nature found a way to intrude.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 12 July 2022
  • My thought was to ignore the sneeze so as not to intrude on their privacy.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022
  • 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.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2022
  • There is society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But there comes a point when reality has to intrude, when the chaos has to give way to order.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • So, go ahead and intrude past your typical comfort point, but on a small scale.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • Some in the crowd began closing or covering their eyes as if not to intrude on her grief.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • 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.
    — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
  • But when Swift dares intrude on the NFL, a segment of people lose their ever-loving minds.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The physical world seems to intrude on the main characters and entrap them.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The jet would grow weaker and wavier, allowing cold air to intrude farther south.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 12 May 2021
  • The cabin is quiet, but allows a good amount of engine noise (some call it music) to intrude.
    — Jason Fogelson, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Ebert plays two white characters, the only people who intrude on Moses and Kitch’s world.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Even as the months turned to years after the accident, that image, down to the whorls and ridges on the dead man’s fingers, intruded into Collins’ life.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Newhouse didn't want to intrude on Dan grief, but was grateful for the chance to unpack his own when Dan invited him to take part.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2022
  • Family and faith are seedbeds of virtue where government ought not to intrude.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
  • Caro is reluctant to have cameras intrude on his process.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Don’t allow unfounded worries to intrude on the 14th and 15th.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 June 2023
  • There’s many ways that a sky can be made inhospitable to intruding aircraft.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • But is there justification for tourists to just show up and intrude?
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The fateful red hand that intrudes into other works here smears blood on that wall, as if left behind by a slumping body.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Ideas intrude which are shameful, sad, even obscene and immoral.
    — Sally Rooney, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • In my experience, a clacky keyboard can intrude even on my own thoughts.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2022
  • However, events in the Middle East are expected to intrude on the agenda.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Regina moves in with them, promising adventures to Lacy, but roommate challenges intrude on the friendship.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 28 June 2024

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