How to Use encroach in a Sentence

encroach

verb

• The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.
• How the encroaching heat of the fire may have affected the wine in the tanks remains to be known.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 23 Oct. 2017
• But Venice is not alone in confronting how to hold back the encroaching sea.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2019
• Great fissures have appeared in the earth, and the ocean is encroaching on the lowlands.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Someone’s hearing the Hound of the Muellervilles howling out of the encroaching fog.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 Sep. 2017
• Trees that had been encroaching on the wetlands were felled.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• The Padres, for one, didn’t want the Chargers encroaching on their downtown turf.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• That’s allowed the ocean to encroach upon the shoreline.
  — Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• Much of the city, however, will stay safe from the encroaching sea.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• Grass encroaches on the streets and abandoned cars sit in empty plots of land.
  — Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, 22 July 2019
• While fire hasn’t encroached on the home yet, a fire burned on the other side of the mountain, Rodney Nelson said.
  — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2025
• The tribe then flourished over time, finding a life in a part of the state not encroached on by Americans.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• This standard has even encroached on the genre of fiction, like a stop sign installed in the badlands.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
• Even creepier than the neighbor who keeps wanting to encroach on her space and ask her out on a date.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• Hindus claimed the herders were encroaching on their lands.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• In the video, Erman claims the group’s A-frame blind is encroaching on his property line.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2023
• Parents of young ones will love that a rear-facing car seat doesn't encroach on front-seat space.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2021
• The kids didn't make the decision to encroach upon parents' rights.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
• The roundup is the result of a lawsuit settled by the state of Utah over horses encroaching on ranch land.
  — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2017
• Part of the concern is that pigs are encroaching from Canada.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
• Barrick’s drums still boom louder than the march of an encroaching army.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• She was informed that her hedge was encroaching on the sidewalk and that trees needed to be trimmed.
  — Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• As cool outflow surged ahead of the encroaching storms, strong winds kicked up a curtain of dust high into the sky.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• The results-centric nature of sports, says Fleg, can encroach on dance as an art form.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• The site was abandoned due to encroaching erosion by 2008.
  — Author: Avery Lill, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2017
• Across the northerly state, glaciers have melted, ground has thawed, and sea ice-free waters have begun to encroach on shores.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• And in recent decades, cities have been encroaching more and more on the wilderness, putting them literally in the line of fire.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2019
• If the planet reaches 3 degrees, the high-tide line could encroach above land where more than 800 million people live, the study finds.
  — John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
• The shadow is always encroaching, but some things are meant to endure.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
• In the late fourth century, a group of warriors began encroaching upon the borders of the Roman Empire.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025