irruption

How To Use irruption In A Sentence

• The instinct is to preserve the status quo against this irruption, not to see the irruption as constitutive of the status quo.
• About the end of the seventh century, they, like all the other nations inhabiting Sarmatia, made irruptions towards the Danube, and inundated the Roman Empire. A Philosophical Dictionary
• And then she lashes out, brandishing her weapon and again there is an irruption of violence, a struggle on the floor, bodies threshing.
• But by the time the novel is over, we've seen how small irruptions of human weakness, no less than gigantic cultural fissures, can change everything.
• He nailed me for calling it a migration as opposed to an irruption.
• The church of Elgin had, in the intestine tumults of the barbarous ages, been laid waste by the irruption of a highland chief, whom the bishop had offended; but it was gradually restored to the state, of which the traces may be now discerned, and was at last not destroyed by the tumultuous violence of Knox, but more shamefully suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
• the recent irruption of bad manners
• The irruption has included both bright red males and greenish or greyish females and juveniles. Times, Sunday Times
• The mullahs have appointed themselves the enemy of fun; as a result, wherever fun herniates into view, it is a politicized irruption of defiance. Iran Bans Valentine's Day
• The irruption followed larger, multiple border-rushings three weeks ago on Nabka "catastrophe" Day, following the anniversary of Israel's independence. The Syrian Diversion