Sample Sentences for
obtrude
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    Of course you have always been an idealist, and filled with optimistic dreams; but reality must at some time obtrude, and you are now turned thirty.†  (source)
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    And those lips which are— well, I mustn't let my carnal lusts obtrude.†  (source)
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    But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice.†  (source)
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    There is self-portraiture in the remark: one sees the moral idealism of the man; it is there, unquestionably, but he hopes that the world will never force it to obtrude itself.†  (source)
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    Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Nature's meditation.†  (source)
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    A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.†  (source)
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    Everywhere it obtrudes its mechanism, its activity, its dreary exigencies and vanity between the ideal and the real, between orchestra and ear.†  (source)
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    They were the only flowers in the room, and I wondered if there was some purpose in it, whether the room had been arranged originally with this one end in view, for nowhere else in the house did the rhododendrons obtrude.†  (source)
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    The filmy mound of silken underpants, looking freshly cleaned, rested on the surface of a marble-top commode inlaid with colored wood and ornamented in strips and scrolls of bronze; a huge and hulking thing, it would have grossly obtruded at Versailles, where in fact it may have been stolen from.†  (source)
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    Why had he come obtruding his life into hers, hers that might have been whole enough without him?†  (source)
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    I don't mean to say that I regret my action, nor will I pretend that I can't sleep o' nights in consequence; still, the idea obtrudes itself that he made so much of his disgrace while it is the guilt alone that matters.†  (source)
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    Unwilling to obtrude himself on the princess, Rostov did not go back to the house but remained in the village awaiting her departure.†  (source)
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    Looking towards the open window, I saw light wreaths from Joe's pipe floating there, and I fancied it was like a blessing from Joe, —not obtruded on me or paraded before me, but pervading the air we shared together.†  (source)
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