OBTRUDE in a Sentence

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For OBTRUDE, below is one of 9 sentences:
Unwilling to obtrude himself on the princess, Rostov did not go back to the house but remained in the village awaiting her departure.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBTRUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
obtrude
 v.  push oneself or one's ideas forward or intrude; stick out or extrude
Classic Sentence:
1  We have ever been far from wishing to obtrude ourselves on anyone.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
2  Unwilling to obtrude himself on the princess, Rostov did not go back to the house but remained in the village awaiting her departure.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIV
3  Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Nature's meditation.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
5  But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
6  The knitting old woman with the cat obtruded herself upon my memory as a most improper person to be sitting at the other end of such an affair.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
7  A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
Example Sentence:
1  Because Fanny was reluctant to obtrude her opinions about child-raising upon her daughter-in-law, she kept a close watch on her tongue.
2  He persisted in obtruding himself despite our efforts to get rid of him.