How to Use encroach in a Sentence

encroach

verb

• The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.
• Even creepier than the neighbor who keeps wanting to encroach on her space and ask her out on a date.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• About a decade ago, the family tried - in vain - to persuade residents to move away from the encroaching ocean.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The glow of a screen as darkness encroaches seems, by comparison, eerie and malevolent.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• In the decades since, much of the watershed has been paved over, and expanding development has encroached along the channels in many areas.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• Merrifield, a speedy leadoff hitter, tried to lay down a bunt single down the third base line, encroaching on Chapman’s vast range of space.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2019
• As urban development encroached upon the structures, the Corps made changes to minimize the risk of flooding.
  — Scott Dalton, CNN, 25 Aug. 2019
• Before being locked in a vault and before the bombs and before the endless stacks of books, Bemis was a man who viewed the world as encroaching upon his precious time.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2019
• The consensus is that once-skittish coyotes seem to be encroaching upon homesteads and attacking pets, even in the presence of their human owners.
  — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 5 Sep. 2019
• Powerful settlers have incessantly encroached their land, livelihoods, and lifestyles, pushing them further and further to the margins.
  — K A Shaji, Quartz India, 28 Aug. 2019
• Landgrabbers practice slash-and-burn techniques to clear forest for agriculture and loggers encroach on national forests and indigenous reserves.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
• The loggers are encroaching on the relatively untouched forest in the three indigenous areas around Boa Vista do Pacarana.
  — Felipe Fittipaldi, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• So as Homero was trying to grow the butterfly reserve, it was constantly being encroached on by cartels who wanted more avocado production.
  — Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2024
• But Venice is not alone in confronting how to hold back the encroaching sea.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2019
• Trees that had been encroaching on the wetlands were felled.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• The Padres, for one, didn’t want the Chargers encroaching on their downtown turf.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• That’s allowed the ocean to encroach upon the shoreline.
  — Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• Much of the city, however, will stay safe from the encroaching sea.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• This standard has even encroached on the genre of fiction, like a stop sign installed in the badlands.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
• In the video, Erman claims the group’s A-frame blind is encroaching on his property line.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2023
• Parents of young ones will love that a rear-facing car seat doesn't encroach on front-seat space.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2021
• The kids didn't make the decision to encroach upon parents' rights.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
• Part of the concern is that pigs are encroaching from Canada.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
• Barrick’s drums still boom louder than the march of an encroaching army.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• She was informed that her hedge was encroaching on the sidewalk and that trees needed to be trimmed.
  — Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• The results-centric nature of sports, says Fleg, can encroach on dance as an art form.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• Across the northerly state, glaciers have melted, ground has thawed, and sea ice-free waters have begun to encroach on shores.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• If the planet reaches 3 degrees, the high-tide line could encroach above land where more than 800 million people live, the study finds.
  — John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
• By clearing forests and grasslands to erect buildings, roads and farms, humans have encroached on the ecosystems in which birds thrive.
  — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2019
• The exiled crown prince teams up with a nurse, Seo-bi (Bae Doo-na), and other survivors to beat back the encroaching zombie horde.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024