INVADE in a Sentence

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64 example sentences for INVADE, such as:

1. I don't want to invade your private life.
2. So he came to London to invade a new land.
3. They gathered soldiers to fight the invading army.
4. I don't want to invade your private life unnecessarily.
5. They invaded the house at all hours and without warning.

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 Meanings and Examples of INVADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
invade
 v.  move into; intrude; enter by force in order to conquer
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  So he came to London to invade a new land.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
3  Gabriel glanced right and left nervously and tried to keep his good humour under the ordeal which was making a blush invade his forehead.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
4  Beside the crag the heath was very deep: when I lay down my feet were buried in it; rising high on each side, it left only a narrow space for the night-air to invade.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V.
6  Late in the afternoon she sought refuge with Mademoiselle Reisz, and stayed there alone, waiting for her, feeling a kind of repose invade her with the very atmosphere of the shabby, unpretentious little room.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
7  In the meantime, the sisters gladly dismounted, and prepared to enjoy their halt in the coolness of the evening, and in a security which they believed nothing but the beasts of the forest could invade.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
8  Nay, the Director's room itself they would invade while still licking their lips, and since their breath was not over-aromatic, the atmosphere of the room grew not over-pleasant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
9  We say that Napoleon wished to invade Russia and invaded it.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
10  I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  But Melanie reefed up her top hoop a little higher to hide her thickening figure and the wounded invaded the brick house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  My little inner world was gone, invaded by people whose thoughts were not my thoughts, whose actions were as alien as a Hottentot's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  At first she was as startled as if a ghost had invaded the store and then, hastily removing her foot from beneath her, she stiffened her spine and gave him a cold stare.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  They invaded the house at all hours and without warning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  She flushed; she was alarmed by the ease with which the big-city man invaded her guarded personality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  I don't want to invade your private life unnecessarily.
2  Concentrations of troops near the border look set to invade within the next few days.
3  Maria looks set to invade the music scene with her style and image.
4  I don't want to invade your private life.
5  During the one-day visit Hun Sen also accused Thailand of plotting to invade again.
6  The diseased tissue can be easily invaded by these microorganisms.
7  Many wildlife parks are regularly invaded by people poaching game.
8  The brash insurance salesman invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company.
9  We can hope that because the invader is being closely watched for, he may never come.
10  The invader de-vastated the whole town.
11  The invading force, conscious of their numerical inferiority at sea, decided on an airborne attack.
12  They gathered soldiers to fight the invading army.
13  Netflix has been signing up viewers in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries; and next week it starts invading the continental heartland, beginning with France.
14  The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
15  The invaders cut off their prisoners' arms and legs and threw their mutilated bodies into the ditch.