Example Sentences

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Earlier that morning, “life-threatening conditions” and “dangerously strong winds” were encroaching on Buffalo, according to forecasts.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022

Analysts told the BBC recently that Islamist insurgents were encroaching on territory, and military leaders had failed in their attempts to bring the military under a single unit of command.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2022

China's big dam builders still had no clearly defined "no go areas" and their current projects were encroaching upon precious marine and mammal habitats in Africa and elsewhere, it said.

From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2021

The fires were encroaching on residential areas and threatened a power plant.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

On both sides of the road the woods were encroaching and the only light was the feeble one cast by the single uncertain lamp of the car.

From Stubble by Looms, George