All 18 Uses
intrusion
in
The Bourne Ultimatum
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- That you, Cull?" came the voice of Redhead over the line, intruding on Parnell's thoughts as he wrote a seventh obscenity on the legal pad.†
intruding = interrupting or involving oneself without welcome
- He blinked at the harsh, intrusive sound as if trying to locate the source, then he sprang from the couch and rushed to the desk, reaching the phone on the third ring.†
intrusive = unwelcome involvement
- To lay it across the drive might appear too obvious a trap, but partially on the road-an intrusion on the pervasive neatness-would be offensive to the eye, the task of removing it better done now than later in the event the general drove out and saw it upon his return.†
intrusion = an interruption or involvement that is unwelcome
- Two shrill beeps suddenly intruded on the silence of the room.†
*intruded = interrupted or involved oneself without welcome
- He was within three miles of the island, a shrubbed volcanic intrusion on the water his landmark.†
intrusion = an interruption or involvement that is unwelcome
- The figure darted for the protection of the shrubbery; it crouched, an immobile but intrusive part of the silhouetted foliage.†
intrusive = unwelcome involvement
- The older, much older, David Webb kept intruding, invading, trying to find reason within insanity and violence.†
intruding = interrupting or involving oneself without welcome
- These are the hours of vespers and you intrude.†
intrude = unwelcome involvement or interruption
- Krupkin's radio again intruded, the two piercing beeps barely muffled by his jacket.†
intruded = interrupted or involved oneself without welcome
- "Lou, please!" intruded Mario, quietly but firmly.†
- There was a sudden knocking at the door, four raps in a row, harsh and intrusive.†
intrusive = unwelcome involvement
- A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.†
intrude = unwelcome involvement or interruption
- "Speaking of which," intruded Dimitri, "may we get to the issue at hand, comrade?†
intruded = interrupted or involved oneself without welcome
- It seemed to rise out of the earth, a huge boxlike intrusion on the pastoral scene, an ugly man-made interruption of heavy brown wood and miserly windows reaching three stories high and covering two acres of land.†
intrusion = an interruption or involvement that is unwelcome
- Briefly, however, the softer eyes of David Webb intruded, his lips parted, forming the face of a man for whom the weight of a world he loathed had been removed.†
intruded = interrupted or involved oneself without welcome
- I don't want to appear intrusive, but Washington gave me a pretty complete rundown on you.†
intrusive = unwelcome involvement
- They walked along the moonlit beach, alternately touching and not touching, the embarrassment of intimacy intermittently intruding as if a world that had separated them had not let them escape its terrible orbit, constantly pulling them into its fiery nucleus.†
intruding = interrupting or involving oneself without welcome
- Waves lapping over the unmistakable intrusion of a human being, breaks in the flow of the natural rhythm-sounds Jason Bourne knew from a hundred beaches!†
intrusion = an interruption or involvement that is unwelcome
Definitions:
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(1)
(intrusion) an involvement or interruption that is unwelcome
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In geology, intrusion can reference the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation.