Example Sentences

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Grief, loss and angst have intruded upon the lives of many of us over these past few years.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022

Other questions have intruded into the lives of people whose relatives died of the disease, questions that are a reminder that dying of Covid is seen as different, somehow separate from other losses.

From New York Times • May 14, 2022

Bullock said at the time that the bill would have intruded on the Board of Public Education and local school boards’ constitutional authority over schools.

From Washington Times • Feb. 3, 2021

Thomas and the late Justice Antonin Scalia have said the court may have intruded into a space in which it was not needed.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2019

Who could have intruded into the sanctum, and for what reason?

From The Head Girl at the Gables by Brazil, Angela