encroach

How To Use encroach In A Sentence

• After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
• She has no right to encroach on my time.
• Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
• From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
• There was no one at the beamdown point, which was close to where the undetectable barrier kept the swamp from encroaching on the habitat, but there was a road nearby that took them to the village in less than half an hour's walk. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
• Council was addressing an application made for approval of a retaining wall that encroaches onto the boulevard.
• The developers also plan to prohibit further land encroachment along the banks of the canal.
• In these, as in the Crinoids, the interambulacral plates are absent, and the interambulacral spaces are filled by an encroachment of the ab-oral region upon them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
• We will never allow anybody to encroach upon China's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
• If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity. Times, Sunday Times