The phrase 'encroached in' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to describe a situation in which one person or entity has encroached upon the rights or space of another. For example, "As the city's population grew, developers encroached in on the nearby farmland."
Though new condominiums and the construction of a subway line have encroached in recent years, Little India still provides a treat to the senses, with colorful saris, spice and incense stalls, and shops selling the latest music and movies from India.
There are an enormous number of ways that our privacy can be encroached in a given day.
Apart from the design of the trajectory of each measurement, it was also drawn a representative rendering of the line of each route and its geometrical characteristics and especially the edge of the traveled way (reference arc) that none of the riders encroached in each curve.
Some men took up arms when ISIS encroached in order to defend their homes, churches and monastery against the heavily armed militant group. .
Fishermen are sometimes locked up for encroaching in another country's claim.
Development continued to encroach in the early 1950's, when a dam that would have flooded the gorge was planned.
Fires, tree poaching and ranchers are encroaching in parts of the Laguna del Tigre national park in the western part of the reserve, threatening a sanctuary for 250 endangered scarlet macaws, the country's last, said Roan McNab, country director for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
This is interesting especially in light of recent reports that iAds is slowly encroaching in Google's mobile share.
On the other hand, livestock rustling prohibited widespread utilization of the southern rangelands which allowed bushes to encroach in the formerly open grasslands.
China's Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier, returning from exercises in the South China Sea, was not encroaching in Taiwan's territorial waters but entered its air defence identification zone in the southwest, Taiwan's defence ministry said.
With the dust settled and sirens encroaching, in an epic display of honor, O'Conner hands over the key to his orange Toyota Supra, the "ten-second" car he'd promised his bro-for-life earlier, allowing a shaken Dom to make his escape into the franchise's next six films.
