Example sentences for: encroachment

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

  • The recent case has the Amish community fretting over how to stop the encroachment of outside society.

  • Here and around the tree-shaded Square St-Louis, nicely restored or equally nicely battered Victorian gingerbread mansions and iron-staircased row houses fight a picturesque rear-guard action against the encroachment of the modern red-brick blocks of the university.

  • Nevada casinos fearing encroachment on Las Vegas' turf bankrolled an opposition campaign.

  • The balladry of the Rio Grande border was “one of resistance against outside encroachment” (1958, 244).


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