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incursion - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- Scot: This was in compensation for their losses by the incursions of the Scots!
Preposition: into
- territory: For some readers the book will be a first incursion into a strange territory.
Converse of object
- resist: One supervisor said they were prepared to join with Kurds to resist a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.
- prevent: UNISON has helped the Welsh assembly put a program in place to prevent the incursion of the two-tier workforce into Wales.
- launch: This week, Benin's top military officer accused Burkina Faso of launching an armed incursion into the Benin side of the area.
- stop: They bewail the fact that their own fisheries inspection service seems powerless to stop these incursions or arrest the offenders.
- make: During the evening groups of Loyalist rioters began to make incursions into the Catholic Short Strand enclave of east Belfast.
Adjective modifier
- barbarian: Continuity of tax responsibilities in areas not affected by barbarian incursions.
- cross-border: The FARC and the ELN often use the area for cross-border incursions and regard Venezuelan territory near the border as a safe haven.
- Turkish: One supervisor said they were prepared to join with Kurds to resist a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.
- frequent: Of course the native population were also busy and frequent incursions and skirmishes took place along this boundary line.
- gray: The scheme will also be able to monitor the rate of gray incursion into red squirrel areas.
Noun used with modifier
- squirrel: The magnitude of threat to red squirrels is the threat from gray squirrel incursion.
- runway: The system used gives the maximum protection against possible runway incursions.
- Viking: The burhs were a series of defended towns designed by King Alfred to counter act the Viking incursions.
- border: Manuscript D then mentions a border incursion by " Griffin, the Welsh king " .
- ground: On Thursday, large numbers of American and British aircraft were destroying Iraqi air defenses as a prelude to ground incursions.
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