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.
  • Lamb was not one to intrude or to object to his guest’s claims.
    — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
  • By then, though, ill health had begun to intrude on his work.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Here's how to get rid of poison ivy that intrudes on your space.
    — Caroline Biggs, Martha Stewart, 23 May 2026
  • Are there branches that intrude on the walk or block a window?
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Work wants to intrude on my window into the world.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, the state intrudes more and more into daily life.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Then the marsh plants start to die, and saltwater intrudes to push them over.
    — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Do not approach bears or intrude between a female bear and her cubs.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But violence intrudes even here when a woman is found shot dead on the beach.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Both of those can intrude on everything that goes on in a person’s life.
    — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The power of that holy city intrudes into the strangest and most profane of places.
    — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 9 July 2013
  • But regardless of the change of scenery, nature found a way to intrude.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 12 July 2022
  • There is society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
  • So, go ahead and intrude past your typical comfort point, but on a small scale.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • The tree had grown around the intruding plank, which Kobayashi has since removed.
    — Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The house was built for folks who, well, clearly hate other folks intruding on their space.
    — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2025
  • Still, real life also has a way of intruding.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
  • Some in the crowd began closing or covering their eyes as if not to intrude on her grief.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The jet would grow weaker and wavier, allowing cold air to intrude farther south.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 12 May 2021
  • Family and faith are seedbeds of virtue where government ought not to intrude.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
  • Bike lanes, used not only to provide for cyclists but also to intrude on car space, do the same.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But, like Allen, Dave Wommack doesn’t intrude too much on his son’s work.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The warm layer has intruded upon most of this part of the coast for most of the years the team has been dropping probes.
    — Jonathan Nackstrand, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The county tried to provide assurances that its use of the land would not intrude on the cemetery.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2017

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