Encroach

"Encroach" in a Sentence (12 examples)

A good salesman will not encroach on his customer's time.

They encroach on our fundamental liberties.

The Romans encouraged their ally Masinissa to encroach on the territories of Carthage and to harass her in every way.

We encroach more and more into their world.

[D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface.

Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.

I won’t encroach on your time any longer.

He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.

Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.

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All that we see, all colours of all shade, By encroach of darkness made?

Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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