How to Use intrusion in a Sentence

intrusion

noun
  • The intrusion doesn’t end there.
    — Daniel Wallach, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Ross, 52, was not home at the time of the intrusion.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • No word on who was behind the intrusion.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Will an older dog think of a new friend as a playmate or an intrusion?
    — Vanessa Infanzon, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
  • One key element of this storm is the intrusion of dry air.
    — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a huge intrusion into your life.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • So there wasn’t any sense of intrusion of the technical world.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 17 June 2025
  • The teenager, incensed by the intrusion, had grabbed the phone and fled.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Mature shops find their own intrusions through their own telemetry.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The smell of smoke infused the overnight intrusion of damp marine air over the region.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
  • Schools are now left scrambling to assess the full extent of the intrusion.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But the scale of the intrusion makes these excuses hard to digest.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The link has been a recurring intrusion into my thoughts for years.
    — Matt Curtis, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • These were the ones that felt like the biggest intrusion of privacy.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • It's been such an intrusion in our daily lives, since March, that people are tired of it.
    — Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The intrusion lasted more than eight hours on March 16.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Better to nip the intrusion in the bud by detecting the first signs of trouble.
    — PCMAG, 7 Mar. 2025
  • To be a fourth party on the Zoom feels like both a privilege and an intrusion.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Many people in your nieces’ age group seem to treat talking on the phone as an unwelcome intrusion.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Many people in your nieces' age group seem to treat talking on the phone as an unwelcome intrusion.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Tyler is not the only employee to broach the issue of email intrusions.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Would the mere sight of our black faces in the windows of a mobile home be seen as some sort of mistake, or worse, an intrusion?
    — Janine Rubenstein, Essence, 7 June 2020
  • The zoo confirmed the intrusion in an X post made on May 17.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • Even weirder, the email said Facebook had been forced to keep this intrusion secret.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2021
  • And there was also an intrusion of very hot air, rare for this time of year, onto the Antarctic plateau.
    — Caitlin Kaiser and Angela Fritz, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But the intrusion is the demand for proof of vaccination, and the cruise line is suing to get it.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The breakup was painful for me, and the pictures were a random and jarring intrusion, leaving me sad for the rest of the day.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The main risk comes through vapor intrusion, or where vapors can enter the home and residents may breathe it in.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2021
  • The idea is for the boat to run without noise, so guests can enjoy the wilderness without any sign of human intrusion.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 June 2022
  • This would not have been the case prior to media intrusion in our relationship.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025

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