INTRUDE in a Sentence
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74 example sentences for INTRUDE, such as:
1. I ask your pardon, sir, if I intrude.
2. I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
3. He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
4. We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
5. The guards have orders to shoot intruders on sight.
2. I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
3. He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
4. We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
5. The guards have orders to shoot intruders on sight.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of INTRUDE
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intrude
v. trespass; enter as an uninvited person
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 I hate to intrude on you at this time but I have a matter of business to discuss that will not wait.
2 She saw that Aunt Bessie did not mean to intrude; that she wanted to do things for all the Kennicotts.
3 It is possible that the Indians and stragglers of the enemy may intrude, in which case you will remind them of the terms of the capitulation, and threaten to report their conduct to Montcalm.
4 As they passed the gates, the French officers, who had learned their rank, bowed often and low, forbearing, however, to intrude those attentions which they saw, with peculiar tact, might not be agreeable.
5 I ask your pardon, sir, if I intrude.
6 I should never wish to intrude where I were not welcome.
7 that I would not intrude upon his kindness, were I in any other position than on the confines of distraction.
8 Gurth and Wamba speedily found acquaintances in the court-yard, nor presumed to intrude themselves any farther until their presence should be required.
9 After remaining in thought a minute he added gently, "I will not intrude upon you longer."
10 To many persons this Egdon was a place which had slipped out of its century generations ago, to intrude as an uncouth object into this.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
11 The captain swear again, polyglot, and the thin man make him bow, and thank him, and say that he will so far intrude on his kindness as to come aboard before the sailing.
12 I will not let any gloomy moralising intrude upon us here tonight.
13 Good evening, gracious lady; I am sorry to intrude, but there is a fugitive hiding on the balcony.
14 But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.
15 Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 The pressures that would intrude from the galaxy would defeat our purpose.
2 We hid behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
3 It uses image-processing software installed on its built-in micro-computer to determine whether the intruder is a threat.
4 We hid himself behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
5 He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
6 The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
7 I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
8 I didn't realise your husband was here, Dr Jones - I hope I'm not intruding.
9 The press has been blamed for intruding into people's personal lives in an unacceptable way.
10 I felt awkward at intruding on their private grief.
11 I really wanted to be there, even though I was uncomfortable with the idea of intruding into a very personal time.
12 In the animal kingdom intruders usually lose contests over territories.
13 We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
14 The security guards set their dogs on the intruders.
15 The guards have orders to shoot intruders on sight.