How to Use interloper in a Sentence

interloper

noun

• I had hoped to help my neighbors, but they regarded me as an interloper.
• In a deal made with the Jazz, there was an interloper on the scene.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
• But the Mariners were interlopers in a lofty spot that didn’t belong to them.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
• For some this is the place to fight back against interlopers and bad manners.
  — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
• The mini moon measures just about a mile and a half across, and looks like a wee interloper passing in front of the mighty sun.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2019
• His switch from the RSC to the National was rocky; he was seen as a traitor by one, as an interloper by the other.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Once in the metropole, the pieds noirs were regarded as alien interlopers from the fringes, dirtied by the dirty work of empire.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• Look even for an interloper from the DC universe, but don’t blink.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 July 2024
• In all these conflicts, locals just hit and run and wait for the foreign interloper to get tired and go home.
  — Ivan Eland, Twin Cities, 19 Dec. 2019
• The roof may leak, but the kitchen is modern, a sleek and functional interloper.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2019
• The interloper then has the audacity to head back to the holding pen with the other women and take a seat.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• This was the chance for an interloper to crash big brother’s party.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
• Residents found the kitchen full of smoke and an interloper sitting on a couch in the dark as something on the stove was burning.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Will the perfect couple fall apart thanks to a hot interloper?
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• These locals aren’t interlopers of the place but products of it as much as anybody else.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
• In this doctrine, the United States is a decades-long interloper in the region and a fading power.
  — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022
• Looking intently at the scene from about 40 feet away, a local interloper waits for a chance to snag a free meal.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
• Memory, interloper in the corner who means to kill, heavy rock in its hand.
  — Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• There was a time — not so long ago — when San Francisco used to stand up to ugly interlopers.
  — Caille Millner, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• The interloper settled herself between the seats and smiled at Allen.
  — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
• With history as their guide, women worry that there will be rapes and murders at the hands of the interlopers.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
• In a video of the incident, the bodyguard put his forearm around the interloper’s neck and pulled him away from the Argentine athlete.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• The first bovine interloper was spotted on Cape Lookout National Seashore about a month after the storm and was joined by two more cows in the past few weeks.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Nov. 2019
• One incensed neighbor even takes off her chancla and throws it at the interloper.
  — Alysia Nicole Harris, Dallas News, 8 July 2021
• This interloper’s usefulness to the House of Woodcock has run its course.
  — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2018
• In addition to its human toll, the astral interloper damaged crops and fields in the area.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The interloper has been vanquished, her family is safe, and her husband is in her arms again.
  — Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• Each is now managed by a caretaker who feeds and keeps tabs on the resident cats and alerts Woods to any interlopers.
  — Kate Elizabeth Queram, Laurel Leader, 21 Mar. 2018
• Petry was a native in Old Saybrook, something of an interloper in Harlem.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
• Lacy is jealous of the demands on her mother’s attention and sometimes wages subtle warfare against the interlopers in their house by, say, using their shampoo.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024