Example sentences for: encroaching

How can you use “encroaching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The resistance to an encroaching foreign culture, the loss of political and economic power, feelings of social marginality, and the resulting conflict of cultures all contributed to the creation of folklore in the form of legends, jokes, and songs by the Chicano people.

  • Fortunately you have received this in time to escape the encroaching HOLOCAUST of fascist christian [ sic ] morality."

  • In Ontario and Québec, where encroaching forests gradually dispersed the herds of caribou, the Iroquois ousted the Algonquin and settled down to cultivate maize, beans, and squash, living in rectangular, multifamily longhouses.

  • According to the official doctrine, the Bill of Rights only applies to limit “state action” encroaching upon individual liberty.

  • The extreme Islamist version of history blames the decline from Islam's golden age on the rulers and people who turned away from the true path of their religion, thereby leaving Islam vulnerable to encroaching foreign powers eager to steal their land, wealth, and even their souls.


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