How to Use encroach in a Sentence

encroach

verb

• The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.
• 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
• Deputies lifted those who could not walk into police cars and drove quickly away from encroaching fire just coming into view over small hills.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
• In the years since, that beach has become a grassy wetland that floods regularly, encroaching ominously on his home.
  — Joseph Lee, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
• Many of these date back centuries but have been encroached on by farmers as Nigeria’s population has expanded.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• And the performance notes from studio and network executives encroached more and more upon my dignity.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2024
• The campers may not have had fans taking selfies in front of their coaches or stopping to gawk at their luxury lodging, but even here, the outside world occasionally encroached.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 16 June 2018
• Here in East Boston, encroaching water has presented notable challenges.
  — Noble Ingram, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2018
• Even today, the development of renewable energy often risks encroaching on land held sacred by tribes, who have argued they are cut out of the decision-making process.
  — ProPublica, 20 Sep. 2024
• Scientists aren’t sure how these low-oxygen bouts affect narwhal health, but as humans keep encroaching on their habitat, these marine mammals may have to rely on desperate dives more often.
  — National Geographic, 8 June 2018
• The Puritans could scarcely help trying to convert the Indians—and, as the number of settlers increased, encroaching on their land.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 13 June 2018
• The video focuses on the Big Island's coastline, where the encroaching lava spilling from Fissure 8 has turned the beach into a pile of molten rock and waste.
  — Temi Adebowale, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2018
• Jamie, who exercises his law license trying to prevent efforts to encroach on the Duttons’ massive holdings, needs to think more like a landowner, not just a lawyer, complains his father.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024