Sentence examples for slowly encroaching from inspiring English sources

We worked to clear out the aggressive mugwort growing in the Oasis, and the slowly encroaching phragmites coming through the fence.

Club Monaco was founded 25 years ago in Canada and has been slowly encroaching on the American market ever since, offering basics with a Continental edge.

Miami Beach has undertaken a roughly half-billion-dollar quest to raise roads, build storm-water pumps and gird itself against a slowly encroaching ocean.

After a brief lull on Wednesday night, fighting seemed to intensify on Thursday as the two sides, now separated only by a few residential blocks, fired anti-aircraft missiles at each other as they scrambled for control of government buildings and the airport, their battle slowly encroaching further towards the centre of the city.

There is still a slowly encroaching storm, however.

Facilities are so close to the water that the hotel lost a tennis court to the slowly encroaching ocean.

SEM studies, of crevices observed after anodic polarization, indicated that the attack was initiated at the grain boundaries and slowly encroached into austenite grains.

While Facebook has roundly beat its rival in social networking, its executives, many of whom hail from Google, have long feared that its rival will use its dominance over Internet search to slowly encroach into Facebook's territory.

The reserve was home to more than 2,000 gibbons in the late 1950s, but poachers and loggers slowly encroached on the area, leaving only 30 or so left by 1980, when the Chinese government declared the park a protected area.

The innkeeper, Marsha Burton, serves a splendid full breakfast, and coffee in the sitting room helps obscure the the world of suburbia that has slowly encroached upon Woodhaven's lawn.

No matter how fervently children cling to the belief that fairies yet linger in the backyard, fireflies are really fallen stars and stuffed animals can talk, absolutely, the adult world (with its tedium, stresses and need for matched socks) will slowly encroach on theirs.