Sample Sentences for
intrusion
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  • They are a proud people and resent foreign intrusion into their local affairs.
    intrusion = unwelcome involvement
  • I resented the intrusion.  (source)
    intrusion = an unwelcome involvement
  • The gnats were too frantic to notice these intrusions,  (source)
    intrusions = interruption or entries (typically unwelcome)
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  • "Forgive the intrusion," he said, his eyes shifting uncomfortably about the room.†  (source)
  • Let me ask you this--and please don't misunderstand my intentions or think that I'm trying to intrude into the personal life of your family--but wasn't Andy seeing a counselor about possible problems that may have been caused by his involvement in that accident?  (source)
    intrude = involve oneself without welcome
  • It was obvious that Mr. Pignati was going to visit awhile with Bobo, and John and I felt like we were intruding.  (source)
    intruding = interrupting (by being there)
  • It was so warm so secure so comforting to ... feel somehow that here was a place in the wilderness a place forever safe a place that could never be changed could never be harmed could never be intruded upon.  (source)
    intruded = interrupted with an unwelcome entry
  • Yet the questions never felt intrusive.  (source)
    intrusive = (like an) unwelcome involvement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • They all represented unwelcome intrusions of foreign objects fired with violent velocity into his person.†  (source)
  • Now and then a completely unrelated image intrudes momentarily.†  (source)
  • The new one felt intrusively unfamiliar, like having somebody else's hand sewn to the end of his arm.†  (source)
  • These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I tried to make my voice as quiet and unintrusive as I could.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintrusive means not and reverses the meaning of intrusive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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