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
• Then the marsh plants start to die, and saltwater intrudes to push them over.
  — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So, go ahead and intrude past your typical comfort point, but on a small scale.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Some in the crowd began closing or covering their eyes as if not to intrude on her grief.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• The first proposed mine to intrude on the Sami’s world was along the coast, where reindeer calves are born in the summer in Kvalsund, Norway.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• But when Swift dares intrude on the NFL, a segment of people lose their ever-loving minds.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
• The physical world seems to intrude on the main characters and entrap them.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• Smartphones aren’t making kids smarter But phones aren’t just intruding on kids’ time outside class.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• There will be objections that the last thing the country wants is a dysfunctional national legislature intruding further in the business of Americans.
  — David Blumenthal and Sara Rosenbaum, STAT, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024