Example Sentences

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In the decades since, much of the watershed has been paved over, and expanding development has encroached along the channels in many areas.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

Anonymity comes for us all soon enough, but it has encroached with mystifying speed upon the French writer Hervé Guibert, who died at 36 in 1991.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2020

Sen. Thune also discussed how social media has encroached into the legislative process.

From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2020

As the iPhone has become Apple’s primary profit source and has encroached on the iPad’s mobile territory, it’s become unclear what the future of the iPad would be.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2018

At points the shore line has encroached upon the island to a distance of twenty feet in a half-century.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler