Sentence examples for encroached by from inspiring English sources
"encroached by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to refer to when something, usually land, is intruded upon by another entity or force. It can also refer to when one thing takes another thing's rightful place or area. For example: The border between the two countries had been encroached by poachers.
The shoulders, some narrow or nonexistent, are cluttered with leaves and, in the warm months, encroached by poison ivy.
Meeting in Brussels, Nato defence ministers pledged to stand firm against Russia's "aggressive and dangerous" entry into the Syrian civil war, and offered any support needed to Turkey, whose airspace has been encroached by Russian warplanes.
Our borders have been encroached by hostile forces".Earlier this year two men claiming to be Armenian brothers, confusingly calling themselves Artur Margariyan and Arthur Sargsian, came to the nation's attention.
In Thailand, most forests have been encroached by logging, paper production, and housing construction.
In the temperate zone, abandoned fields are often slowly but steadily encroached by shrubs and forests.
Grazing zones and transhumance routes have come under mounting pressure, increasingly encroached by farmland.
Within these period, grazing is encroaching by annual increment rate of 11,568 ha.
Finally, based upon the consensus reached by the community, a land encroached predominantly by A. drepanolobium and A. mellifera was delineated for the planned activity.
The Anuak, who consider themselves the original inhabitants of the area, feel encroached upon by the now more populous Nuer, and also threatened by foreign and highland farming investors.
What has long been dominated by screens of all shapes and sizes is now being encroached upon by the voice.
His attention was also demanded by the Osage Indians, who protested treaties and whose land had been encroached upon by emigrant tribes such as the Cherokee.
