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How to use encroach in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word encroach? Here are some examples.

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I would request he moves the aerial so that it does not encroach your property.
As these Voortrekkers gradually advanced north eastwards they started to encroach on Zulu territory.
Increased tourist flow may increase conflict with tigers and encroach on their habitat.
The position is similar to that where branches of trees growing on neighbouring property encroach across the boundary.
I didn't go around and encroach on her personal space though, however tempting it may have been.
Personal media, in a variety of forms, will increasingly encroach on mass media.
We come not to dominate you, as our traducers allege against us, nor yet to encroach on your own perfect and sacred rights.
Following separation the plaintiff did not find it necessary to encroach upon her assets.
Gradually strings encroach, playing at a different tempo and seemingly to a different tune.
The growth of Parliament was bound to encroach upon its importance by offering another body which could claim to speak for the nation.
Right or wrong, I think the public perception is that these measures collectively encroach on American civil liberties.
However, sediment drifts mantle the western margins, and slope fans locally encroach onto the rise of the eastern margin.
Testing of acalculia has to encroach both oral and written calculations with clinical and standardized neuropsychological tests.
Over the past three decades, the Forest Service has allowed commercial development to encroach upon the roadless expanses.
Where people encroach on wolf habitat, road traffic accidents and shooting are increasing problems.
To usurp is to wrongfully assume power or the throne, to encroach upon something.
Furthermore, meetings encroach upon the time normally devoted to other activities.
On the one hand, the Security Council continues to encroach on the mandate of the General Assembly.
Therefore, with such decisions, the Security Council would not be able to encroach, or, at least, not be able to encroach to the same extent.
Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Perhaps the rousing of the odd, fantastic feeling had been favoured by the slumber beginning to encroach on tody and brain.
He did not intend to permit the others to encroach on any of his territory.
Nevertheless some of them have been hardy enough to encroach on the domain of the crustacea.
There were certain privileges connected with the Gaonate, upon which even the exilarch did not venture to encroach.
He made no attempt to encroach upon the sovereignty of Mary.
And now I will encroach no longer on your time or good nature, Richard.
He was determined not to let the Street encroach on his wretchedness.
She thanks you for your indulgence, on which she will not encroach.
But let us proceed quietly, and not encroach upon future events.
The need for oxygen could not have been so urgent that he must desert the usual means of supply and encroach upon the time of those who are really busier than himself.
I emerged from a nightmare dream of crystal springs and swollen rivers to listen to this night-drinker that I feared might encroach upon what was mine.
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