Sample Sentences for
infringe
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    Most people in our community are decent, hardworking citizens who pursue their own interests legally and without infringing on the rights of others.†  (source)
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    Gate security was to make sure that there were parking facilities for station employees and that guests weren't infringed upon by every frustrated driver looking for a place to stick his car or minishuttle off the street.†  (source)
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    She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.†  (source)
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    There was the will, however, to hinder that, and my loud protestations against any infringement of its directions.†  (source)
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    I am sorry this has happened, but I never allow my rules to be infringed, and I never break my word.†  (source)
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    There was nothing one could speak about that would not infringe on another's area of interest.†  (source)
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    If you suffer, it must not be for murder, theft, or sorcery, nor for infringing the rights of others.†  (source)
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    When I say totalitarian, what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself); all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously); and the mother who abandons her family or the man who prefers men to women, thereby calling into question the holy decree Be fruitful and multiply.†  (source)
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    Whether the apprehensions of the good ladies ...were due to infringements of morality or to the anticipation that the performers may bring on an attack of peritonitis if they persist in their contortions is not clear, but all the same they have taken the position that what is not considered very much out of the way on the banks of the Nile or in the market places of Syria is entirely improper on the Midway between Jackson and Washington Parks.†  (source)
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    Their theory, suitable for primitive and peaceful periods of history, has the inconvenience—in application to complex and stormy periods in the life of nations during which various powers arise simultaneously and struggle with one another—that a Legitimist historian will prove that the National Convention, the Directory, and Bonaparte were mere infringers of the true power, while a Republican and a Bonapartist will prove: the one that the Convention and the other that the Empire was the real power, and that all the others were violations of power.†  (source)
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    Dorothea, early troubling her elders with questions about the facts around her, had wrought herself into some independent clearness as to the historical, political reasons why eldest sons had superior rights, and why land should be entailed: those reasons, impressing her with a certain awe, might be weightier than she knew, but here was a question of ties which left them uninfringed.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninfringed means not and reverses the meaning of infringed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Agloe began as a paper town created to protect against copyright infringement.†  (source)
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    Or, to give a second example, if a group of police officers decided to stretch the laws so that an individual's constitutionally guaranteed rights were infringed, then it was the Constitutional Protection Unit's duty to react.†  (source)
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