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.
• The real world has a sneaky way of intruding on the hoopla.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2017
• Lamb was not one to intrude or to object to his guest’s claims.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• Then the marsh plants start to die, and saltwater intrudes to push them over.
  — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
• But the Duniya, as Hijras call the real world, intrudes.
  — Colette Bancroft, star-telegram.com, 26 June 2017
• 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
• Some of them are close to 200 pounds and well over 6 feet tall, their heads intruding onto the walls.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• But regardless of the change of scenery, nature found a way to intrude.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 12 July 2022
• 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
• But don’t intrude it upon the people who do not want it.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
• My thought was to ignore the sneeze so as not to intrude on their privacy.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022
• But, like Allen, Dave Wommack doesn’t intrude too much on his son’s work.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2019
• 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
• All of those questions, intrude on the core functions of the President.
  — Fox News, 8 May 2018
• There is society, where none intrudes by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
• The county tried to provide assurances that its use of the land would not intrude on the cemetery.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2017
• 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
• Both of those can intrude on everything that goes on in a person’s life.
  — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• But violence intrudes even here when a woman is found shot dead on the beach.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• From now on, the days shorten, football intrudes, the dull throb of daily obligation gets in the way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• While that would normally intrude on a point guard’s turf, Joseph is among a rare breed who can flourish off the ball.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2017
• 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 the news kept intruding—and so did President Trump.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
• Nissan is the latest automaker to add an intruding camper van to its lineup.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
• But the absence of their third family member, Roki’s mother and Jax’s sister, Tawi, sparks a schism between the two and invites the attention of a number of intruding parties.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024