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.
• 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
• Russell Metheny's set never intrudes, but sets the mood.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• There’s also a marina at its mouth, so motorboats and jet skis often intrude on the space used by those with paddles and oars.
  — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 9 Mar. 2018
• The legs of rear-seat passengers won’t be as chipper, however, as the front seats intrude into their space, leaving less than three feet of legroom.
  — Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2018
• In this one instance, the eponymous Cathleen intrudes on the happy home of a man preparing to wed his sweetheart the next day.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Their typology keeps intruding: If only the set-up could somehow be more organic, more true, and if only the heart could be more engaged.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The typography and design is appropriately low key and augments the section through its restraint, rather than intruding on it.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
• And most importantly, the molecule did not intrude into other areas around the receptor that are highly variable.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• City residents are used to geopolitics intruding locally.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• After the dictator collapsed in the bedroom of his dacha, urinating all over himself, hours passed before anyone checked on him, because his guards were afraid to intrude on his privacy.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 15 Mar. 2018
• Which is how a transient hurler would come to intrude upon this Manhattan lawyer’s life, telephoning tauntingly from the French Riviera in a yearslong game of cat and mouse.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• So much of that interplay is, again, about our level of closeness relative to the characters and how much the world is intruding on them.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• Warm ocean water unexpectedly intruded between the Thwaites Glacier and its bedrock.
  — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024