How to Use encroach in a Sentence

encroach

verb

• The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.
• But Venice is not alone in confronting how to hold back the encroaching sea.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• By clearing forests and grasslands to erect buildings, roads and farms, humans have encroached on the ecosystems in which birds thrive.
  — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2019
• It has been moved once (to keep its distance from the encroaching city), and the cars have been covered countless times by new layers of spray paint.
  — Christopher Reynolds, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
• The truck, emblazoned with a large red menu and a photo of the encroaching dawn, sits in front of a large oak tree that doubles as a broom closet.
  — Michael Russell, OregonLive.com, 22 May 2018
• The exiled crown prince teams up with a nurse, Seo-bi (Bae Doo-na), and other survivors to beat back the encroaching zombie horde.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2020
• About a decade ago, the family tried - in vain - to persuade residents to move away from the encroaching ocean.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Fires kill off invasive species and stop trees from encroaching on the habitat.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
• Their goal is to keep Russia from attempting to encroach on the cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
• That means the violence that has played at the edges of Saul's first three seasons is encroaching, making the show feel more and more like Breaking Bad.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2018
• Beth purchases a new ranch for herself and Rip, located 40 miles west of Dillon, Montana—far removed from airports, tourists, and land developers who might encroach on their peace.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025