intrude - use in sentences
Object
- rock: Dolerite dikes intrude all older rocks of the area.
Preposition: on
- privacy: Neither apartment intrudes on the privacy of the other in any way.
- space: Long low level skirting heaters can be used where you don't want to intrude on the wall space of a room.
- life: Others find that the sound can be loud enough to intrude on everyday life.
- landscape: Naturally the posts should be painted green so as not to intrude on the landscape and to avoid confusing golfers.
Preposition: into
- life: But, for the most part, the great events of history didn't intrude into the personal lives of ordinary people.
- space: Both of these types also do not intrude into body space.
- area: Near the north angle the water of the moat intrudes into the central area in a semicircular course, thus forming an islet.
- aspect: Work intrudes into every aspect of the worker's life.
- people: Conventional advertising buys opportunities to intrude into people 's lives.
Modifying Another Word
- never: The prose is elegant, incisive, yet never intrudes on the story, surprisingly intimate despite the grandeur of the theme.
- not: Both of these types also do not intrude into body space.
- often: Practical difficulties, needless to say, often intrude here.
- n't: We wo n't intrude on their privacy or on your relationship with them.
- much: We moored up, fairly near Bridge No 138, where the noise from the M6 did not intrude much at all - 16:20.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- upon: For him the world beyond is about such responsibilities, serving only to intrude upon his inner silence.
Preposition: in
- way: He remembers how God stood back when he wanted to pursue some course or other, and didn't intrude in any way.
Preposition: upon
- privacy: However in some cases, the very systems installed to protect will intrude upon employe privacy.
- life: Pilots of private aircraft do not wish to intrude upon other people`s lives.
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