How To Use Encroaching In A Sentence
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After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
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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)
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If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
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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.
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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.
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His bass is strident without encroaching, but never drives the rhythm; rather, it reacts to it.
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Escaping encroaching snows farther north, pronghorn run south through Wyoming's Gros Ventre mountains on their annual fall migration in 2008.
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A faintly rutted road, wide enough to allow a team of horses, holds off the encroaching prairie.
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we moved back from the encroaching tide
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He sees the United Nations not simply as bloated, but as encroaching dangerously and purposefully on the sovereignty of member nations.
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Variety said that while still eccentric and full of mirth'the irascible green ogre begins to show signs of encroaching middle age '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of that golden age, Cotton Mather himself, "smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied degeneracies," sat down to write the history, recording in the _Magnalia_ "the great things done for us by our God," in the hope that he might thereby do something "to prevent the loss of the primitive principles and the primitive practices.
Beginnings of the American People
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She tried to prevent her work from encroaching too far on her private life.
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One is the quasi-Democratic tilt of the screenplay, with bad guys bellyaching about taxes on the rich and encroaching Socialism (gee, that sounds familiar).
2009 September : Scrubbles.net
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Some residents had complained about sharp wood splinters and nails encroaching upon the children's play area in the park.
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This was now encroaching on my territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Illegal shops and businesses are encroaching on public land and locals are fighting each other over customers.
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And the sense of some grand, encroaching darkness is at the edge of all these very different poets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reversible pulpitis is mild inflammation of the tooth pulp caused by caries encroaching on the pulp.
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Providing you are not encroaching on their space, they are pretty placid animals.
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Denser, shrubby ecosystems are also encroaching on grasslands in many areas.
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Deer which carry ticks are also increasingly encroaching in suburban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe she felt like we were encroaching upon her territory, who knows.
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This was now encroaching on my territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Minquin province they live with violent sandstorms, drought and a desert encroaching at five to ten meters a year.
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He was listening to the singing of treadle sewing machines hard at work, not an encroaching fever.
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And the sense of some grand, encroaching darkness is at the edge of all these very different poets.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the rate of rising sea level gradually slowed, rivers began to build deltas from retreating shorelines into the encroaching seas.
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Humans are encroaching on nature, but we can be more mindful of our impact when enjoying summer wilderness.
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Any other action would have meant encroaching on the territory of others, using means and resources for which he was not qualified.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Variety said that while still eccentric and full of mirth'the irascible green ogre begins to show signs of encroaching middle age '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too - thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve.
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It seemed to be the perfect place to sit and study people without encroaching on their personal space.
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Our home has no main foundations, and magnolia and bay trees are encroaching on it.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the sense of some grand, encroaching darkness is at the edge of all these very different poets.
Times, Sunday Times
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She tried to prevent her work from encroaching too far on her private life.
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Deer which carry ticks are also increasingly encroaching in suburban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some galleries—though airier, better lit and more picture-friendly—are slightly smaller and constricted, as if the walls are encroaching.
Modernizing the Academy
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Aircraft encroaching on U.S. airspace was a more straightforward affair in that the warning time was longer and the source of the threat was obvious.
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We are forced to reimagine those images; he rescues that terrible footage from encroaching banality.
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Intensified upwelling would enhance aridity along the west coast of South America by preventing moist air masses of the Pacific anticyclone from encroaching landwards.
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They are encroaching into the space reserved for the buses.
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His job often involved climbing onto roofs and lookout posts so he could identify the enemy and protect Marines from encroaching insurgents.
The Sun
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The movie industry had chosen to ignore the encroaching competition of television.
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Humanity is being squeezed between deserts expanding outward and rising seas encroaching inward.
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On physical examination, the patient was found to have right scrotal swelling encroaching on the epididymis and testis.
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Her timbers are swollen and misshapen; repeated doses of chemicals are being applied to stave off the encroaching rot.
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My essay last week in the Huffington Post Tis a Pity She's No Longer a Whore -- Broadway Armageddon -- I should have received a lot more hits with such a brilliant title decried the ever encroaching use of synthesizers and the like replacing live musicians.
Melody Breyer-Grell: Broadway Miracle Sighted on PBS -- South Pacific Permitted Full Use of Real Instruments
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The article proceeds to read several fascinating folia of some thirteenth-century Bibles moralisées and discusses, in particlar, the way that pagan Eastern thought was represented in the form of astrologers, and are constantly seen as challenging and encroaching upon the divine sciences.
Archive 2006-05-01
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As with so much of ancient Britain, however, the theme-park disease is encroaching.
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Deer which carry ticks are also increasingly encroaching in suburban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Apuan Alps and the encroaching Apennine foothills of Garfagnana are a recurrent theme in the landscapes and townscapes he produces in his top floor studio.
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Development is also encroaching on its native habitat.
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If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's something quite magical about autumnal afternoons with the curtains open and the twilight encroaching.
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Any other action would have meant encroaching on the territory of others, using means and resources for which he was not qualified.
The Times Literary Supplement
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What happens for the rest of the film should have the feel of slowly encroaching fate, or a collision course between the self-disciplined but ferocious Purvis and the flamboyant but no less ferocious Dillinger.
DVD Review: Public Enemies « Screaming Blue Reviews
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Any other action would have meant encroaching on the territory of others, using means and resources for which he was not qualified.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too - thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve.
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If Mlinko is going to suggest that there might, in fact, exist a set of essentialized relationships between styles of writing and the gender of bodies, then I fail to see how I can easily list women whom I might wish to emulate or upstage without encroaching upon stylistic territory that some feminists might staunchly demarcate as uniquely their own.
By the Numbers : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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This was now encroaching on my territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The more the sun wanes the more lustrous become the colours of the encroaching night until the entire picture is suffused first with magenta and finally saturated in deep blue.
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The northern waterways were closed, the rivers and lakes being slowly choked by the encroaching winter ice.
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I turned into the dirt road and followed it through encroaching trees and bushes.
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Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too - thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve.
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With the murder of a Kabliw soldier, Sjennonirk, an Amiw spirit walker, is captured by the encroaching Southerners, detained for a specific ability that she possesses: the ability to separate part of her soul into a Dog, an animal representation of her soul: wild, uncontrollable and violent.
REVIEW: The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee
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Knowing however much she hurries in the encroaching dark, she can never reach her home again.
SEA MUSIC
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Sand seems to be encroaching at every turn despite government-erected barriers.
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Moreover, the duty of free respect to others is really only a negative one (of not exalting oneself above others) and is thus analogous to the juridical duty of not encroaching on another's possessions.
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A glowing example of how to treat an adult theme without ever encroaching on drawing-room decencies.
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Albert Markovski is a poet and environmentalist fighting for greenspace against encroaching suburban sprawl.
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The last two batsmen Jesrel Prospere and Vaughn Polius shared five overs, but were not poised to increase the score as the Vincentians bowled tight and accurate without allowing them to hit past the encroaching fieldsmen.
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High up between encroaching walls of rock a single star shone.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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I lean across the table, encroaching on his space.
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Manspreading is when a fella sits with his legs wide apart on public transport, encroaching on other passengers' seats.
The Sun
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The movie industry had chosen to ignore the encroaching competition of television.
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He rails against the Department of Energy for what he calls meddling in local energy development, and wants a smaller Department of Education, which he says is "encroaching on local parents and educators.
Vail Daily - Top Stories
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If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you went out the guest bedroom window you saw the forest that was slowly encroaching on our backyard.
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The ozonosphere can absorb the poisonous radiation of solar ultraviolet to prevent lives from encroaching.
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The movie industry had chosen to ignore the encroaching competition of television.
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The undergrowth encroaching upon them from all sides gleamed coldly in the light from the high-intensity flood lamps.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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Along with an upswing in applications, such as Skype, to make calls, companies not known as telecoms are encroaching on the space once the sole domain of carriers.
Microsoft Bans VoIP From Its Mobile Marketplace
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Human development is encroaching on the habitat of many endangered species.
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Indeed, his serial attacks on certain subjects, be they flowering trees or allegories of encroaching blindness, suggest a bullheaded tenacity.
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He considered the texture of the ground at his feet, the gray asphalt of the highway, spiderwebbed with cracks, and the ragged line of white paint, frozen in a futile battle with the encroaching dust.
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Huge basilicas jutted from the encroaching sands, monuments to a Christian soldier martyred by his Roman comrades.
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Some residents had complained about sharp wood splinters and nails encroaching upon the children's play area in the park.
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And the persistent jungle, ever encroaching on space, had out-posts of champac and wild mango, their giant roots, like the arms of an octopus, holding anchorage in clefts of the rock.
Caste
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The undergrowth encroaching upon them from all sides gleamed coldly in the light from the high-intensity flood lamps.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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A large segment of mankind turns to untrammeled nature as a last refuge from encroaching technology.
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Round, about half the size of a soccer field, the pond looked as it had twelve years before, but the collar of vegetation had tightened around it, the circle of evergreens growing inward, encroaching on its edge, casting long shadows on its half-frozen surface.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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Radio, it is argued, is faring worse than other sectors of adland from the encroaching power of the internet.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vast space enclosed by the ramparts have allowed the occupants to farm the area, with lynchets spreading across the camp and encroaching on the flint mines to the west.
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I shrugged and threw a rock into the slowly encroaching darkness.
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The ozonosphere can absorb the poisonous radiation of solar ultraviolet to prevent lives from encroaching.
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Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility.
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Deer which carry ticks are also increasingly encroaching in suburban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy.
GreenCine Daily
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Alethea, a poet with a past, watches and notes, despite encroaching blindness.
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Suddenly his corded muscles bunched under his loose hide and he shot forward, down the slope seemingly following the encroaching aircrafts.
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The sea is encroaching upon the land.
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The natural resources department's extractive resource draft plan is designed to protect south-east Queensland's remaining hard rock quarry sites from encroaching housing estates.
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Maybe your cat is insecure, but maybe there really is another cat encroaching on his turf.
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Mankind will pardon _me_, a native of that country, if smitten with a just fear of encroaching and ill-bodied _degeneracies_, I shall use my modest endeavors to prevent the _loss_ of a country so signalized for the _profession_ of the purest _Religion_, and for the _protection_ of
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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As the rate of rising sea level gradually slowed, rivers began to build deltas from retreating shorelines into the encroaching seas.
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The sea is encroaching upon the land.
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There's something quite magical about autumnal afternoons with the curtains open and the twilight encroaching.
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-- As a temporary expedient in cases of great urgency, where proper instruments and assistants are not at hand, laryngotomy is occasionally useful, though from the want of space without encroaching on the cartilages of the larynx, and from its close proximity to the disease, laryngotomy is by no means a suitable or permanently successful operation.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Soil erosion is increasing, mud slides are occurring more often and the desert is encroaching increasingly.
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While it may seem quaint to the community here that appears to be so enamored of the encroaching governmentalism, I would suggest that you google “Not Yours to Give”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Just Wondering
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Surrounded by trees, with vegetation encroaching down its banks, this clear, languid pool is more of a pond.
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She tried to prevent her work from encroaching too far on her private life.
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In his painting of Kaaterskill Falls, for example, Cole obliterated with his brush the ugly intrusions of the already encroaching tourism.
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As an aside, I'd like to point out that the encroaching neighbor who also thinks her dock is a boat (Saturday's PI story linked to earlier in thread) served for 4 years on the Ames Lake Community Club board in the late 90's.
Sound Politics: Darcy Burner's record of "community leadership": 5 e-mails, 3 meetings, 0 achievements
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His job often involved climbing onto roofs and lookout posts so he could identify the enemy and protect Marines from encroaching insurgents.
The Sun
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In high summer, grappling fronds of bracken grow to chest-height, encroaching on rich grassland like an invading army.
Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
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_Subglottic hypertrophic stenosis_ consists in symmetrical turbinal-like swellings encroaching on the lumen from either side.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
