INTRUDER in a Sentence

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74 example sentences for INTRUDER, such as:

1. The intruder was Mrs. Heathcliff.
2. I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
3. He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
4. We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
5. I felt awkward at intruding on their private grief.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTRUDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intruder
 n.  trespasser; someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  It was almost as if the other face, the face of the superseded woman, had obliterated that of the intruder.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  But when he came home on the afternoon before the housewarming he found himself a slave, an intruder, a blunderer.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  It was not a scorching, hard, dusty day like the treacherous intruder of a week before, but soaked with languor, softened with a milky light.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  Dinner was over and they were gossiping of her friends at the flat, but an intruder was with them, sitting back, persistent, inescapable.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  The Huron, at least, seemed assured that the intentions of this singular intruder were peaceable, for after giving it an attentive examination, he quietly pursued his course.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
6  Starting to his feet, he turned, and, confronting the intruder, his looks fell on the dark form and malignant visage of Magua.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
7  She had not spirits to notice her in more than a few repulsive looks, but she felt her as a spy, and an intruder, and an indigent niece, and everything most odious.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
9  Finally, we have the curious fact that the intruder carried away the key with him when he left.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
10  With a resigned air and a somewhat weary smile, Holmes begged the beautiful intruder to take a seat, and to inform us what it was that was troubling her.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
11  I soon saw that the intruder had left other traces of his presence besides the rumpled papers.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
12  At such times the intruder silently withdrew, and not until the red bow was seen gaily erect upon the gifted brow, did anyone dare address Jo.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
13  His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his attentions to herself most pleasing, and they prevented her feeling herself so much an intruder as she believed she was considered by the others.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  I sat shuddering yet, and wiping the perspiration from my forehead: the intruder appeared to hesitate, and muttered to himself.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  The intruder was Mrs. Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  We hid behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
2  It uses image-processing software installed on its built-in micro-computer to determine whether the intruder is a threat.
3  We hid himself behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
4  He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
5  The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
6  I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
7  I didn't realise your husband was here, Dr Jones - I hope I'm not intruding.
8  The press has been blamed for intruding into people's personal lives in an unacceptable way.
9  I felt awkward at intruding on their private grief.
10  I really wanted to be there, even though I was uncomfortable with the idea of intruding into a very personal time.
11  The pressures that would intrude from the galaxy would defeat our purpose.
12  In the animal kingdom intruders usually lose contests over territories.
13  We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
14  The security guards set their dogs on the intruders.
15  The guards have orders to shoot intruders on sight.