How to Use encroach in a Sentence

encroach

verb

• The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.
• The birds helped keep snakes at bay and warned of encroaching bobcats.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
• And then what happens when outside forces try to encroach on that?
  — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
• Your neighbors may not want to deal with its thorny leaves encroaching on their yard.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2026
• Parents of young ones will love that a rear-facing car seat doesn't encroach on front-seat space.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 28 Dec. 2021
• But Venice is not alone in confronting how to hold back the encroaching sea.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2019
• If encroaching kids and pets are cramping your style, a mega mattress might help.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
• Business-news flow is set to slow down as holidays encroach.
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2025
• Much of the city, however, will stay safe from the encroaching sea.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• Barrick’s drums still boom louder than the march of an encroaching army.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Even creepier than the neighbor who keeps wanting to encroach on her space and ask her out on a date.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• How the encroaching heat of the fire may have affected the wine in the tanks remains to be known.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 23 Oct. 2017
• She was informed that her hedge was encroaching on the sidewalk and that trees needed to be trimmed.
  — Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• Great fissures have appeared in the earth, and the ocean is encroaching on the lowlands.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Part of the concern is that pigs are encroaching from Canada.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
• Fires kill off invasive species and stop trees from encroaching on the habitat.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
• In modern times, wine has taken over the town, and craft beer is quickly encroaching.
  — OregonLive.com, 18 May 2017
• Palace intrigue encroached on his confidence at times.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
• This standard has even encroached on the genre of fiction, like a stop sign installed in the badlands.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
• The shadow is always encroaching, but some things are meant to endure.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
• The results-centric nature of sports, says Fleg, can encroach on dance as an art form.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• As cool outflow surged ahead of the encroaching storms, strong winds kicked up a curtain of dust high into the sky.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 10 July 2018
• The kids didn't make the decision to encroach upon parents' rights.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
• Most of these settlers farmed, but then the cities of Cleveland and Akron encroached from north and south.
  — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 16 May 2026
• The popular Boston fern can reach three feet high and encroach on your living space.
  — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 4 Feb. 2026
• Across the northerly state, glaciers have melted, ground has thawed, and sea ice-free waters have begun to encroach on shores.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• And once a stream erodes its banks, flooding can encroach on nearby infrastructure like bridges or homes.
  — Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
• The tribe then flourished over time, finding a life in a part of the state not encroached on by Americans.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• Ideal for the coats-and-boots season fastly encroaching.
  — Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
• The Padres, for one, didn’t want the Chargers encroaching on their downtown turf.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023