INVASIVE in a Sentence

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1. The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.
2. They found invasive cancer during a routine examination.
3. An invasion would certainly precipitate a political crisis.
4. The regiment covered itself with glory in the invasion battle.
5. English people stills bear the imprint of the Norman invasion.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVASIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
invasive
 a.  tending to spread aggressively; tending to invade
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The three great sorrows of his life held his attention in particular: his love for a woman, his father's death, and the French invasion which had overrun half Russia.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIV
2  Every soldier in Napoleon's army felt this and the invasion moved on by its own momentum.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
3  The people had a single aim: to free their land from invasion.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX
4  If the aim of the European wars at the beginning of the nineteenth century had been the aggrandizement of Russia, that aim might have been accomplished without all the preceding wars and without the invasion.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER II
5  Napoleon could not have commanded an invasion of Russia and never did so.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
6  For a last brief moment, fear of a Yankee invasion clutched her heart but at the word "kiss," she forgot about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  She thought of the faithful few who remained at Tara in the face of the Yankee invasion when they could have fled or joined the troops for lives of leisure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  In ready-made clothes and ready-made high-school phrases they sank into propriety, and the sound American customs had absorbed without one trace of pollution another alien invasion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  Old Dinah, the head cook, and principal of all rule and authority in the kitchen department, was filled with wrath at what she considered an invasion of privilege.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
11  Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
12  The high stillness confronted these two figures with its ominous patience, waiting for the passing away of a fantastic invasion.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
13  But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
14  The latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the Champs-Elysees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
15  A dizzy multitude fills the roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Deer can control the spread of certain invasive plants while helping to proliferate others.
2  Almost 800 people have signed up for the first-ever "Python Challenge," with the majority just average citizens who would normally lack the permits to legally eradicate the invasive species.
3  They found invasive cancer during a routine examination.
4  The regiment covered itself with glory in the invasion battle.
5  An invasion would certainly precipitate a political crisis.
6  He miscalculated badly when he underestimated the response of the international community to the invasion.
7  After the invasion, people were forbidden to fly their national flag.
8  Most e-mail-related cases involve allegations of invasion of privacy, Lippetz said.
9  Latest reports are of a full-scale military invasion.
10  The authorities should have been alert to the possibility of invasion.
11  The deputy prime minister, Abdullah Badawi had to formulate Malaysia's response to the US-led invasion of Iraq, deal with the outbreak of the SARS virus and keep watch while the courts heard an appeal by his jailed predecessor Anwar Ibrahim.
12  The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.
13  English people stills bear the imprint of the Norman invasion.
14  Are we to be told that the prosecution of this libel is an invasion of the liberty of the press?
15  With that UFO news down here in Texas recently, it could make one wonder whether the invasion is about to begin.