Example sentences for: incursion

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

  • As to Russia's claim that its paratroopers' premature incursion had been "a mistake," this was ruled out in Izvestia by the chairman of the Duma's Foreign Relations Committee, Vladimir Lukin, who said in an interview that only President Boris Yeltsin could have given the order for the troops to go in.

  • In the fall of 1995, none other than Henry Kissinger--the author of the secret incursion into Cambodia that prompted the War Powers Act--asserted that Clinton must "obtain clear and unambiguous congressional backing" before sending troops to Bosnia.

  • The NYT explains that U.S. officials are very concerned about whether Albanian forces will respond to the Yugoslavian pullout by resuming their armed insurrection, which is what prompted Milosevic's incursion in the first place.

  • The NYT and WP report that Chinese Embassy officials and visiting military advisers and scholars have hinted that the Chinese government is considering a blockade of some small Taiwan-controlled islands, a small air battle, or perhaps an incursion into Taiwanese waters to punish the nation for its recent talk of independence.

  • While the last thing any place in the world needs is a Disneyland, I think there are special circumstances here that make the incursion even more distasteful.


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