Sample Sentences for
encroach
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    At first, they stayed only a few hours, but soon they became like la calabaza, the squash plant in Alfonso's garden, whose giant leaves spread out, encroaching upon anything smaller.  (source)
    encroaching = gradually taking another's rights or property
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    My mother is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, not a fact I think about much even now that she is sightless, the result of encroaching and stubborn cataracts.  (source)
    encroaching = gradually taking what previously belonged to another
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    About seven miles from downtown Louisville, the community center was surrounded on three sides by potato farms and on the fourth side by encroaching suburbanization.  (source)
    encroaching = gradually taking land previously used for a different purpose
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    Any space around her was her personal space; just by existing, you were encroaching.  (source)
    encroaching = intruding or taking another's rights or property
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    When I get to England I'll put a stop to their bloody encroachments.†  (source)
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    But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.  (source)
    encroached = gradually taken property once used for other purposes
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    It was true, the trees did encroach on our little clearing.†  (source)
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    He draped a blanket over his shoulders and drew it around them, cocooning her against the night and all encroachment.†  (source)
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    He sees Frederick staring into his book of birds; he sees the furor of the mines at Zollverein, the shunting cars, the banging locks, the trundling conveyors, smokestacks silting the sky day and night; he sees Jutta slashing back and forth with a lit torch as darkness encroaches from all sides.†  (source)
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    You're encroaching on Princess Myakaya's special domain now.  (source)
    encroaching = intruding or beginning to take a right that belongs to another
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    During his term at Nickel, the Mexican boy sidestepped the squabbles that embroiled the rest of them, the uncounted disputes over psychological turf and endless encroachments.†  (source)
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    Darkness encroached at the edge of my vision.†  (source)
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    Her hair was wavy and dark and streaked with gray that she had allowed to encroach without resistance.†  (source)
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