How to Use encroach in a Sentence

encroach

verb
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  • The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.
  • The Padres, for one, didn’t want the Chargers encroaching on their downtown turf.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In the video, Erman claims the group’s A-frame blind is encroaching on his property line.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Parents of young ones will love that a rear-facing car seat doesn't encroach on front-seat space.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The kids didn't make the decision to encroach upon parents' rights.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Barrick’s drums still boom louder than the march of an encroaching army.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • She was informed that her hedge was encroaching on the sidewalk and that trees needed to be trimmed.
    — Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • If the planet reaches 3 degrees, the high-tide line could encroach above land where more than 800 million people live, the study finds.
    — John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Their goal is to keep Russia from attempting to encroach on the cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • One of Lauren Waters's main goals in this Tribeca loft project was to carve out a comfortable work-from-home space that didn't encroach on the living room.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The oil will likely continue to encroach on beaches for the next few days, officials said.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The series was prescient about the extent to which the virtual space would encroach on the physical one, even come to determine it.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • In most cases, new buildings cannot encroach into this zone and must be located at least 30 feet from the hillside.
    — Brett Milligan, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
  • This work does not encroach on many of these issues, with the embryos being grown in laboratories and for such a short time span.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The new law might appear to encroach upon many of Hong Kong films’ favorite themes, such as crime, corruption and triad gangs, but few have so far sought to test it.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • This survey showed that the common wall between our two lots encroaches 4 feet onto Lot 8.
    — Christopher A. Combs, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2023
  • The forces suffered from a lack of equipment and manpower, compared to the encroaching Japanese army.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The infamous Ochoa brothers of the Medellín cartel want to encroach on the Miami trade, but Griselda wants all of their product to move through her.
    — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Men took her equipment and lab samples without permission and encroached on her space.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
  • In this particular mind, my mind, there’s the furry feeling of encroaching fever.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • But that serenity is getting harder to find these days, as swarms of tourists encroach ever further.
    — Mary Ilyushina and Fred Pleitgen, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But despite his survival, the concerns of electoral politics have still started to encroach on his turf.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The pool room has its own climate control, so its humidity doesn’t encroach on the living quarters.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Saltwater is encroaching on parts of the aquifers that provide drinking water for the three million people who live east of Queens and Brooklyn.
    — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Leaves that earlier might have reached a compromise between fading green and encroaching gold now seemed to have gone all gold.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Here, astronomers and conservationists are fighting against the encroaching light of towns and industries, the kind of thing that humankind and progress bring.
    — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The area has long been racked with conflict between Indigenous groups and poachers who encroach on their reservations.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • Wildfires can encroach or shift direction with startling speed; exit roads can be cut off.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The fire encroaches on a retail area in Lahaina as jet-black plumes of smoke billow in the air, according to video recorded at the scene by Lahaina resident Alan Dickar.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • With this overwhelming force, the Russian navy encroached on the Ukrainian coast, launching missiles at Ukrainian cities, and landing forces at the port of Mariupol.
    — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024

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