Sample Sentences for
impinge
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    I didn't mean to impinge on your personal time, but this urgent matter requires your immediate attention.
    impinge = intrude upon
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    I was going to say that while he had a roommate it was frightened Brownie Perkins, who would never impinge on Brinker's comfort in any way, and that they had two rooms, the front one with a fireplace.  (source)
    impinge = encroach or negatively affect
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    The third figure did not actually appear so much as allow its presence to impinge upon my consciousness; it was as if it always had been there and King Billy and I had failed to notice it until the flames grew bright enough.  (source)
    impinge = press into awareness
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    Retirement suited Marley just fine, and his hearing problems didn't seem to impinge on his leisurely country lifestyle.  (source)
    impinge = interfere with
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    A feeling that I was forgetting something impinged on my too-rare happiness.  (source)
    impinged = intruded
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    The water was chilly and refreshing, and I felt the pressure of my mother and her fears for me like a ballooning, impinging presence.  (source)
    impinging = intruding negative affect
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    In time, however, he began to resent the impingement on his freedom.  (source)
    impingement = infringement (limiting of)
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    The blast of the hand-grenades impinges powerfully on our arms and legs; crouching like cats we run on, overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills us with ferocity, turns us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows what devils; this wave that multiplies our strength with fear and madness and greed of life, seeking and fighting for nothing but our deliverance.†  (source)
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    It's only as we're halfway down the corridor that her words begin to impinge on my mind.  (source)
    impinge = intrude (or press into awareness)
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    But then, in the earliest hours of that morning in November, a Sunday morning, certain foreign sounds impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises-on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive whistles.  (source)
    impinged = intruded
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    "You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward.  (source)
    impinging = intruding
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    After her first burst of disappointment Joan began to take the mishap as she had taken Tess's original trouble, as she would have taken a wet holiday or failure in the potato-crop; as a thing which had come upon them irrespective of desert or folly; a chance external impingement to be borne with; not a lesson.†  (source)
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    ... outside things began to impinge more rapidly until the objective world, with all its freight of memory, experience, and prejudice, had pretty much re-established itself.  (source)
    impinge = intrude
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