Sentences with intrude
in·trude
I i - The press has been blamed for intruding into people's personal lives in an unacceptable way. [V + into/on/upon]
- Do you feel anxious when unforeseen incidents intrude on your day? [V + on/into/upon]
- Shipboard life doesn't intrude upon Miss Fisher's preferred routines.
- Perceived to be too close to where people live or when they intrude on a much-loved natural landscape.
- The officer on the scene said no one had intruded into the area. [V + into/onto]
- To intrude upon their privacy.
- To have an adult of either sex intrude on this exploration interrupts an otherwise normal process of learning and maturing.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: intrude implies the forcing of oneself or something upon another without invitation, permission, or welcome [to intrude upon another's privacy]; obtrude connotes even more strongly the distractive nature or the undesirability of the invasion [side issues keep obtruding]; interlope implies an intrusion upon the rights or privileges of another to the disadvantage or harm of the latter [the interloping merchants have ruined our trade]; butt in (or into) (at butt2) is a slang term implying intrusion in a meddling or officious way [stop butting into my business]
- To intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another