How to Use encroach in a Sentence
encroach
verb- The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.
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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
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But Venice is not alone in confronting how to hold back the encroaching sea.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2019
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Great fissures have appeared in the earth, and the ocean is encroaching on the lowlands.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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Someone’s hearing the Hound of the Muellervilles howling out of the encroaching fog.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 Sep. 2017
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Trees that had been encroaching on the wetlands were felled.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
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The Padres, for one, didn’t want the Chargers encroaching on their downtown turf.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
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That’s allowed the ocean to encroach upon the shoreline.
—Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
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Much of the city, however, will stay safe from the encroaching sea.
—Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
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Grass encroaches on the streets and abandoned cars sit in empty plots of land.
—Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, 22 July 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Hindus claimed the herders were encroaching on their lands.
—Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
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In the video, Erman claims the group’s A-frame blind is encroaching on his property line.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2023
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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
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The kids didn't make the decision to encroach upon parents' rights.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
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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
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Part of the concern is that pigs are encroaching from Canada.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
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Barrick’s drums still boom louder than the march of an encroaching army.
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
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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
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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
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The results-centric nature of sports, says Fleg, can encroach on dance as an art form.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
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The site was abandoned due to encroaching erosion by 2008.
—Author: Avery Lill, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Many pointed out that humans have encroached on mountain lion habitat.
—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2025
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At that time, with commercial fishing encroaching on their traditional livelihoods, most people in his town decided to take up piracy, Khamis asserted.
—Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
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