encroaching

How To Use encroaching 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.
• 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)
• If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity. Times, Sunday Times
• He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
• I put it down to the fact that as he's Italian the encroaching of personal body space was just something that came with the territory.
• Use an ice chipper, a lawn edging tool, or a spade to scrape off grass or weeds encroaching on the driveway or inhabiting any cracks.
• His bass is strident without encroaching, but never drives the rhythm; rather, it reacts to it.
• Escaping encroaching snows farther north, pronghorn run south through Wyoming's Gros Ventre mountains on their annual fall migration in 2008.
• A faintly rutted road, wide enough to allow a team of horses, holds off the encroaching prairie.
• we moved back from the encroaching tide