Sentence examples for intruded from inspiring English sources

The reasoning is that if there was a human intruder then the dog would bark and if a dog intruded then the cat would have howled.

But then events, as Macmillan would have said, intruded.

But the prime minister's ability to relax can cause problems, such as when last year's riots intruded upon his summer holiday in Tuscany and he was slow to realise the enormity of the situation.

There was some benefit from playing at home; he considered sloping off for a couple of hours in the afternoon, while Patel was pondering nine holes of golf until the rain intruded.

The four complain that the police have intruded into their lives and used personal information to lure them into becoming part of their espionage operation.

Politics intruded upon two megabids by American companies for European ones.

Mr Hague, a sceptic about the European Union, vowed to lift the gaze of British diplomacy to far-flung, fast-growing corners of the world.Events, notably the Arab Spring, have intruded on that commercial logic to a degree.

The state sometimes intrudes unacceptably into the lives of its citizens – but more often it is the best way of providing essential social services.

It is also a matter of how we perceive the relationship between man and nature – whether we regard the natural world as the aesthetic norm, something pristine upon which humanity and our technological "advances" intrude.

Rarely do other factors intrude and aggravate the situation.

Hope you don't think I'm intruding".