How to Use incursion in a Sentence

incursion

noun
  • The project will also mark Bejo’s rare incursion in the genre film world.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
  • How come the events in that movie did not cause a separate incursion?
    Chris Smith, BGR, 25 June 2022
  • The incursion of war into day-to-day life may already be shifting the tide.
    Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • So the trend is in fact for these groups to expand, to have more recruits, and this will likely mean more incursions.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But the events in the sequel might also trigger an incursion.
    José Adorno, BGR, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The boy was killed by Israeli forces during an incursion the day before.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Here's a look at where many Ukrainians have headed to avoid the Russian incursion.
    Travis Caldwell, CNN, 13 Mar. 2022
  • But the incursion of tech companies into live sports is in full swing.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • The Russian rouble weakened against the dollar on Wednesday and has lost 8.5% since the start of the Ukrainian incursion.
    Reuters, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The risk or incursion was not much examined at the time, because the new toy then seemed trivial and warm-hearted.
    Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • But politics, protest and the incursion of vexing world affairs have always played a part in the Olympics.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Just last week, the Israeli army entered Nablus’ Old City, one of several incursions in the last two months.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But what started as a quick incursion turned into one of the bloodiest conflicts in the world.
    Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The attack, part of a wider armed incursion that killed nearly 1,200 people, led to the ongoing Gaza war.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Vladimir Putin’s intentions were, after all, hiding in plain sight and signaled in the months running up to the incursion.
    Tara Sonenshine, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The strike comes amid Ukraine's own incursion into Kursk, the first time Ukrainian forces have pressed onto Russian soil since the beginning of the war.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Aslan’s mother said that every time there was an Israeli military incursion, her son would rush to join the youths on the streets.
    Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
  • As fears grow that an incursion by Israeli ground forces could lead to a full-scale invasion of Rafah, tens of thousands of people have fled the city.
    Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • But that is starting to change as these incursions become more frequent.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • This might have something to do with the incursion that started in Multiverse of Madness.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 27 July 2022
  • The Kremlin’s forces have struggled to push back a Ukrainian incursion into Kursk.
    Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The bridge had crossed the river Seym in the Kursk region, the area in western Russia where Ukrainian forces have been carrying out a large-scale ground incursion.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • And Matilda even tried to nose in on Bart’s bowl of celebratory Bartholobrew, a sudsy incursion that was nipped in the bud by an alert Bankman.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In addition, Ukraine lacks the air power to support its ground incursions.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In a bid to mitigate the crisis, the IDF refrained from making the incursion public for several weeks.
    Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The villagers react to this incursion in ways ranging from delight to disgust.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The boot is 14 inches tall, so not as high as some models, but there’s a nylon collar that cinches tight on your calf to prevent incursions.
    Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
  • There are also questions about what the incursion might mean for the support Ukraine relies on from its Western allies.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Predictably, Putin saw the incursion as a stab in the back and pulled the plug, with Moscow labeling the Ukrainian offensive as an escalation.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Israel followed up the pager detonations with the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike and launching incursions in south Lebanon.
    Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024

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