How To Use Obtrude In A Sentence
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I don't want to obtrude upon/on her privacy.
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A turtle obtrudes its head from its shell.
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That this did not impair his relations with his mother suggests that he concealed it from her or at least did not obtrude it.
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Rather, they obtrude persistently into consciousness, perturbing us when we would rather forget them, even disrupting our dreams.
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I was, in short, "elected," by an obsession equal to a conviction; and what with her insistently obtruded as a bonus I never was permitted to lose sight of the ghastly prize of skill added to merit.
Desert Dust
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Instead of the lost name - Signorelli - two other names of artists - Botticelli and Boltraffio - obtruded themselves.
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Nothing is barred from consideration as long as it does not obtrude into the lives of others.
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Aware of their importance to herself, she carefully cherished, but never made them subjects of conversation, nor gave the world an opportunity of censuring what they would have termed her fastidious notions; her religious opinions were never obtruded upon slight acquaintance, and it was only her more particular friends who, beside her family, could form any judgment of her principles, save from her moral conduct.
Yamboo; or, the North American Slave
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Number Thirteen did not know, of course, but the idea obtruded itself, and had sufficient weight to cause him to remain seated upon the edge of the bed meditating upon the act he contemplated.
The Monster Men
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Into this meditation obtrudes another vision, with an entirely distinct vocabulary and resonance.
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Lord Lochcarron replied, “I did not mean that the word obtruded should refer to the intelligence itself, but to the manner of the person from whom I received it; the matter,” he added, smiling, “cannot be otherwise than pleasing to me, since, if true, it assures me that I shall soon be honoured with a new tie of relationship.”
Any Thing But What You Expect
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Lucile seemed ready to cry, and showed a repressed perturbation quite unexpected of her; while, try as she would, Frona could not call upon her usual sympathy to drive away the coldness which obtruded intangibly between them.
CHAPTER 21
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Further obfuscation is caused by Sherry's eagerness to obtrude himself.
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And yet, what continually surprised him was that this culture was never obtruded on their intercourse.
Chapter XV
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It is rather striking how often oracles obtrude in one form or another in debates about the kingship at Sparta.
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'But,' she added, with that touch of superiority in her manner which obtruded itself in most of her conversation with the vicar's wife, 'there are certain accepted traditions of womanhood such as conventionality approves, and it was not called artificial to conform to them when I was a girl.'
Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
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In English cities and towns, the minister of religion has been tamed: so many weapons are bared against him when he obtrudes his office in a dictatory manner, that, as a rule, there is no more quiet and modest member of society than the urban clergyman.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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I don't really know why we Americans always say "intrude" instead of "obtrude," but I note that although both words contain the word "rude," "obtrude" sounds more rude.
Archive 2007-08-01
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In Angst the world obtrudes itself and is seen as what gives significance but is itself without significance.
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Her Majesty is no stranger to a vault or firmament, of a sort of floorcloth, with an indistinct pattern distantly resembling eyes, which occasionally obtrudes itself on her repose.
Reprinted Pieces
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She pondered the flower slowly and thoughtfully, as a hasheesh-eater, heavy with the drug, might ponder some whim-flower that obtruded on his vision.
Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
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But from beneath the glowing surface some pricklier realities obtrude.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She pondered the flower slowly and thoughtfully, as a hasheesh-eater, heavy with the drug, might ponder some whim-flower that obtruded on his vision.
Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
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The first he saw was the parasol, strangely obtruded between him and the sky.
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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Recollections occasionally obtruded, -- recollections of marts and galleries and crowded thoroughfares, of evening dress and social functions, of good men and dear women he had known, -- but they were dim memories of a life he had lived long centuries agone, on some other planet.
In a Far Country
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She is at her most urgent and evocative when she assumes the first person; otherwise the work's essayistic quality obtrudes upon the immediacy and music of the poetry.
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A 40 watt bulb would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude.
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Attestamur item, nos minime talia in Ecclesiis nostris spargere dogmata, qualia adversarii nonnulli nostri nobis, apud eos maxime, ad quos scripta nostra non perveniunt, et qui doctrinae nostrae imperiti sunt, falso et praeter meritum tribuere, obtrudereque nituntur.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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But I challenge the ethics of including stealthily edited sequences and extras that obtrude questionable material on unsuspecting viewers.
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A 40 watt bulb would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude.
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Passion is known to obtrude judgement and there is a lot of passionate anti-corporate and anti-American sentiment around.
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The billowing words obtruded itself into all the elf's senses.
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Day after day it worried him, and the candy shop and the girl behind the counter continually obtruded themselves.
Chapter 2
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It is unwise for an outsider to obtrude his opinions into a family quarrel.
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“And from the word obtruded, I should suppose not more singular than unwelcome,” returned Lord Dunotter, smiling; “pray what was it?”
Any Thing But What You Expect
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I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints on you.
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The homelier glow of an ordinary bulb, or even the homelier light of gas, would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude.
A DEATH IN TIME
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Other problems arise elsewhere on those occasions when the hand of editor or fingerer obtrude.
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Then the chosen ones would not obtrude with their sleek vehicles.
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A 40 watt bulb would be quite sufficient and would not obtrude.
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In a tremulous state of dissatisfaction with himself — that any such grisly thought should have dared to obtrude itself upon him in this way — he got up and lit the lamp — re-read this disconcerting item in as cold and reprobative way as he could achieve, feeling that in so doing he was putting anything at which it hinted far from him once and for all.
An American Tragedy
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Recollections occasionally obtruded, -- recollections of marts and galleries and crowded thoroughfares, of evening dress and social functions, of good men and dear women he had known, -- but they were dim memories of a life he had lived long centuries agone, on some other planet.
In a Far Country
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In some places, solid blocks of the stone obtrude from the granite pavement of the front of the memorial or from its curved base.
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He didn't want to obtrude on her privacy.
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But if such matters obtruded in their investigations then the tribunal was perfectly entitled to investigate.
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Wilson does obtrude, though, with a half-hour introductory jazz concert that is supererogatory, even if Cheryl Alexander is a very winning performer.
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These obtrude upon the original aim of the book and absorb the action of the story in such a measure that Timme often for whole chapters and sections seems to forget entirely the convention of his outsetting.
Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century