Example Sentences

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“They have trespassed on our property to access this camp,” said a Union Pacific spokesman, Tim McMahan.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2019

It would have trespassed on his devotion to all mankind.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“I do love knitting patterns. Well, Harry, we have trespassed upon Horace’s hospitality quite long enough; I think it is time for us to leave.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

I have trespassed against her and helped her, too.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

Yet why should anyone have trespassed there but one of the housemaids?

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.