Example sentences for: invade

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

  • How good then for Anthony Lewis, over on the NYT op-ed page, to recall Kissinger's reaction when, in 1975, it was pointed out to him that Indonesia used U.S. weapons to invade East Timor.

  • After all, in this piece the car-home-and-fire salesman turned global strategist describes the Gulf War as if it were a model of Clausewitzian clarity concerning ultimate goals and acceptable means, forgetting in the process that at the end of that war, the Bush/Powell/Schwarzkopf axis internally disagreed about war issues that had never been articulated for the American people: Should the U.S. destroy the Iraqi military, invade Baghdad, or topple Hussein even after Iraq was repulsed from Kuwait?

  • Mussolini hated Hitler and wanted him to be defeated, Mack Smith said, but he eventually entered the war as his ally because he was frightened that the Germans would otherwise invade Italy.

  • Embryos develop in a proteinaceous matrix extruded by the adult female, and hatch as second-stage larvae (L2) that move through the soil and invade the plant root.

  • Looking back in 2004, he equated the presidential directive with a readiness to invade Afghanistan.


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