Examples of interlope in a Sentence
regarded the new couple as a pair of interloping parvenus who were sure to upset the town's social hierarchy
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Bloom has been cast by some diehard Sox fans as an interloping budget-cutter who imperiled the franchise by letting cornerstones Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts get away.
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Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
BlackBerry suggests that spirit was killed by an influx of big business thinking, taking the form here of Canada's hulking, reigning master of intimidation, Michael Ironside, cast as the interloping COO.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 May 2023
Iworrigan had been off Facebook but reactivated her account to try to verify whether or not the interloping hound might be Nanuq.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
Corinne always unrolls her mat in the back corner, tries not to interlope.
—Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
Even my mother, an expert in detecting interloping odors, couldn’t catch anything.
—Luke Winkie, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019
And so Beyonce wanting to be in that just seemed like interloping.
—Joy-Ann Reid, Cosmopolitan, 13 Feb. 2018
Europeans are taught a history of migration from birth, of Greeks and Romans spreading over Europe, conquering lands, and interloping afar.
—Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
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Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
BlackBerry suggests that spirit was killed by an influx of big business thinking, taking the form here of Canada's hulking, reigning master of intimidation, Michael Ironside, cast as the interloping COO.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 May 2023
Iworrigan had been off Facebook but reactivated her account to try to verify whether or not the interloping hound might be Nanuq.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
Corinne always unrolls her mat in the back corner, tries not to interlope.
—Rebecca Makkai, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
Even my mother, an expert in detecting interloping odors, couldn’t catch anything.
—Luke Winkie, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019
And so Beyonce wanting to be in that just seemed like interloping.
—Joy-Ann Reid, Cosmopolitan, 13 Feb. 2018
Europeans are taught a history of migration from birth, of Greeks and Romans spreading over Europe, conquering lands, and interloping afar.
—Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
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“Interlope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interlope. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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