obtrude

in a sentence

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) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

Mrs Danvers never obtruded herself, but I was aware of her continually.†  (source) Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

The glass panel slid sideways and the barrel of a revolver obtruded.†  (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

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) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

The name, made more odious by its diminutive, obtruded itself on Lily's thoughts like a leer.†  (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

In that interesting fact—and this quite in spite of himself—lurked a suggestion that insisted upon obtruding itself on his mind—to wit, that it might be possible that the man's body was not in that lake at all.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

Everywhere it obtrudes its mechanism, its activity, its dreary exigencies and vanity between the ideal and the real, between orchestra and ear.†  (source) Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, 1926

And those lips which are— well, I mustn't let my carnal lusts obtrude.†  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

For Carley admitted to herself that there was something amiss, something incomprehensible, something intangible that obtruded its menace into her dream of future happiness.†  (source) Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon, 1924

Why had he come obtruding his life into hers, hers that might have been whole enough without him?†  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

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) Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900

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) Richard Hofstadter, Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth, 1948

The knitting old woman with the cat obtruded herself upon my memory as a most improper person to be sitting at the other end of such an affair.†  (source) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1902