How to Use incursion in a Sentence

incursion

noun
  • Even with this latest incursion, the news still shouldn't be that bad.
    Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 7 July 2021
  • Cuban forces crushed the incursion within three days.
    ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • How come the events in that movie did not cause a separate incursion?
    Chris Smith, BGR, 25 June 2022
  • Airspace incursions sit in a grey zone between peace and open conflict.
    Frederic Lemieux, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • People with chain saws, an incursion to reclaim what’s left of home.
    Michael Paterniti Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Reginald Dwayne Betts Rowan Ricardo Phillips Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The incursion of war into day-to-day life may already be shifting the tide.
    Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But the incursion of tech companies into live sports is in full swing.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • Workers stopped much of the incursion by closing the tidal inlet with sand berms.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Scientists say that climate change may have played a role in this incursion.
    Popular Science, 7 June 2020
  • The project will also mark Bejo’s rare incursion in the genre film world.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The perpetrators of these incursions go back a long time with me.
    Paul Karrer, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Both are charged with trespassing and field incursion.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But that is starting to change as these incursions become more frequent.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • But the events in the sequel might also trigger an incursion.
    José Adorno, BGR, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Both marked the largest single-day incursion by Beijing to date.
    Tim O'Donnell, The Week, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The incursion of new species may not be all bad for Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean.
    Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Oct. 2021
  • That was 35 years ago, but that early incursion should have been a warning.
    al, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The incursion added to concerns that the war could spread across the alliance's borders.
    Arkansas Online, 30 May 2026
  • As Ronald Allen learned, plaintiffs have to prove they have been harmed by the incursion.
    Alana Semuels, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The motive behind the incursion is also not yet known.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
  • So the trend is in fact for these groups to expand, to have more recruits, and this will likely mean more incursions.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Their voices have only gotten louder as talk of a ground incursion has picked up.
    Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That vision is of an Eden marred only by the incursion of humankind.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The boy was killed by Israeli forces during an incursion the day before.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024
  • My brother called the police to report the incursion.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But what started as a quick incursion turned into one of the bloodiest conflicts in the world.
    Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Thousands of police and soldiers have been drafted in to keep watch on the crowd and guard against further incursions.
    The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The risk or incursion was not much examined at the time, because the new toy then seemed trivial and warm-hearted.
    Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • With every passing year, more wilderness is lost to human incursion.
    Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2026
  • During one incursion, Ayyub hid in a house and peered out as a crowd of some sixty men jostled outside.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025

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