INTRUDING in a Sentence

Learn INTRUDING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

74 example sentences for INTRUDING, such as:

1. I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
2. He didn't seem to like my intruding at all.
3. He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
4. We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
5. The guards have orders to shoot intruders on sight.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTRUDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intruding
 a.  projecting inward; entering as an improper or unwanted
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  He didn't seem to like my intruding at all.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  The ruffian Woodley was a very different person, but, except on one occasion, he had not molested our client, and now he visited the house of Carruthers without intruding upon her presence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
3  I desired, as I have explained, to keep my visit to you a secret, lest my husband should think that I was intruding into his affairs.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
4  Mr. Darcy related the mistake which had occasioned his intruding on Miss Bennet, and after sitting a few minutes longer without saying much to anybody, went away.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32
5  Alexey Alexandrovitch began, suddenly turning white; but at that moment the lawyer rose and again went to the door to speak to the intruding clerk.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
6  The children all scampered off to the awning, and they stood there in a line, gazing upon the intruding lovers, still exchanging their vows and sighs.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  Gabriel held her hand for a moment longer, irresolutely, and then, shy of intruding on her grief, let it fall gently and walked quietly to the window.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
8  "I see I'm intruding," Rostov repeated.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIX
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
2  I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
3  I didn't realise your husband was here, Dr Jones - I hope I'm not intruding.
4  The press has been blamed for intruding into people's personal lives in an unacceptable way.
5  I felt awkward at intruding on their private grief.
6  I really wanted to be there, even though I was uncomfortable with the idea of intruding into a very personal time.
7  We hid behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
8  It uses image-processing software installed on its built-in micro-computer to determine whether the intruder is a threat.
9  We hid himself behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
10  He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
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.