Sample sentences for INCURSION

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unwelcome intrusion — possibly a physical attack into another's territory or involvement in personal matters

BB's incursion was brilliant, but he couldn't outright Core omega phages.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion

*x The American government does not indeed rob them of their lands, but it allows perpetual incursions to be made on them.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
Most of the flowers were plastic, a vivid example of a twentieth-century incursion of Yamacraw.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
You remember, the 'Days of Rage' thing after the Cambodian incursion and that awful screw-up with the national guard.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
She also insisted on transporting the bottle, upon which, it is important to add, I committed no incursions, sticking, as always, to beer.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
As I was saying, the vision you had shortly before Christmas represented such a powerful incursion upon the Dark Lord's thoughts —'
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Oh, there were little alarms: a Shade here, an incursion by Urgals there, a skirmish between two dwarf clans over a mine no one but they cared about.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
He believes that if the slaves are found to be contraband Africans, it will be all the British need to begin an incursion in Cuba.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
Wounds during our incursion into Angola and the fact that they figured I was older than my papers said.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
No feudal baron in Magna Charta times could have more thoroughly resented some incursion of the crown.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
We haven't been invited, and the Fair Folk don't like incursions into their territory—"
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
The symbol of the spear was chosen because with this simple weapon Africans had resisted the incursions of whites for centuries.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
You've probably heard about the incursion today.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
This was his first incursion into management circles.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Save for this annual incursion, they left literature alone.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
She had a spider's sense for a male footstep, an incursion into her territory.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
He had all the theoretical knowledge required to make an incursion into the brain, but he did not by any means consider himself a brain surgeon.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Then the boy reckoned expenses: renting the canoe, renting the canoe paddle, renting fishing equipment so that no one would suspect the truth behind their incursions.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
Ryan had kept up with the radio coverage of his incursion into the country station, and he'd taken hope in the fact that anyone who turned on a radio in Texas now knew of his challenge.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters

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