Example sentences for: incursion

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

  • My bemusement led to my wondering how many English words in the story of youpie Marc, where the vocabulary has been selected to illustrate the relentless incursion of English expressions into modern French, were borrowed into English from French, either the Old, Anglo-, Middle, or Modern language.

  • 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.

  • Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the army incursion and the preceding two weeks of air raids were necessary to punish Islamic militants for recent bombings in Russia and to prevent the militants from invading Dagestan.

  • 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.

  • This puts into play, the paper explains, the possibility of putting Pakistan on the U.S. official watch list of countries that support terrorism, which would reduce its ability to get international loans--an idea being resisted by the Pentagon and CIA because of Pakistan's aid to the U.S. during the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan.


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