INTRUDE in a Sentence

Learn INTRUDE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For INTRUDE, below is one of 74 sentences:
It uses image-processing software installed on its built-in micro-computer to determine whether the intruder is a threat.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of INTRUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intrude
 v.  trespass; enter as an uninvited person
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  I hate to intrude on you at this time but I have a matter of business to discuss that will not wait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  She saw that Aunt Bessie did not mean to intrude; that she wanted to do things for all the Kennicotts.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  It is possible that the Indians and stragglers of the enemy may intrude, in which case you will remind them of the terms of the capitulation, and threaten to report their conduct to Montcalm.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  As they passed the gates, the French officers, who had learned their rank, bowed often and low, forbearing, however, to intrude those attentions which they saw, with peculiar tact, might not be agreeable.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  I ask your pardon, sir, if I intrude.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
6  I should never wish to intrude where I were not welcome.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
7  that I would not intrude upon his kindness, were I in any other position than on the confines of distraction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
8  Gurth and Wamba speedily found acquaintances in the court-yard, nor presumed to intrude themselves any farther until their presence should be required.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  After remaining in thought a minute he added gently, "I will not intrude upon you longer."
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
10  To many persons this Egdon was a place which had slipped out of its century generations ago, to intrude as an uncouth object into this.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
11  The captain swear again, polyglot, and the thin man make him bow, and thank him, and say that he will so far intrude on his kindness as to come aboard before the sailing.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  I will not let any gloomy moralising intrude upon us here tonight.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
13  Good evening, gracious lady; I am sorry to intrude, but there is a fugitive hiding on the balcony.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
14  But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46
15  Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The pressures that would intrude from the galaxy would defeat our purpose.
2  We hid behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
3  It uses image-processing software installed on its built-in micro-computer to determine whether the intruder is a threat.
4  We hid himself behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
5  He surprised a masked intruder in the kitchen.
6  The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
7  I hope I'm not intruding on your privacy.
8  I didn't realise your husband was here, Dr Jones - I hope I'm not intruding.
9  The press has been blamed for intruding into people's personal lives in an unacceptable way.
10  I felt awkward at intruding on their private grief.
11  I really wanted to be there, even though I was uncomfortable with the idea of intruding into a very personal time.
12  In the animal kingdom intruders usually lose contests over territories.
13  We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders.
14  The security guards set their dogs on the intruders.
15  The guards have orders to shoot intruders on sight.