How to Use interloper in a Sentence
interloper
noun- I had hoped to help my neighbors, but they regarded me as an interloper.
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In a deal made with the Jazz, there was an interloper on the scene.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
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For some this is the place to fight back against interlopers and bad manners.
—Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
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But the Mariners were interlopers in a lofty spot that didn’t belong to them.
—Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
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This was the chance for an interloper to crash big brother’s party.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
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Will the perfect couple fall apart thanks to a hot interloper?
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 July 2021
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These locals aren’t interlopers of the place but products of it as much as anybody else.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
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One incensed neighbor even takes off her chancla and throws it at the interloper.
—Alysia Nicole Harris, Dallas News, 8 July 2021
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Memory, interloper in the corner who means to kill, heavy rock in its hand.
—Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
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In all these conflicts, locals just hit and run and wait for the foreign interloper to get tired and go home.
—Ivan Eland, Twin Cities, 19 Dec. 2019
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The interloper — whether male or female — is allowed to stay.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
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Yes, but not just any heckler; the interloper turns out to be Death himself.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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The roof may leak, but the kitchen is modern, a sleek and functional interloper.
—Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2019
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Aziza remains an interloper, both in the drama and in this house.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
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Look even for an interloper from the DC universe, but don’t blink.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 July 2024
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The edge of the black hole is thus a region of space and time that expressly forbids interlopers.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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The mini moon measures just about a mile and a half across, and looks like a wee interloper passing in front of the mighty sun.
—Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2019
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But there is something in the air that even an outsider could feel at the rehearsal, which was open to donors and press interlopers.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
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The interloper has been vanquished, her family is safe, and her husband is in her arms again.
—Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021
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Once in the metropole, the pieds noirs were regarded as alien interlopers from the fringes, dirtied by the dirty work of empire.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
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With history as their guide, women worry that there will be rapes and murders at the hands of the interlopers.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
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Residents found the kitchen full of smoke and an interloper sitting on a couch in the dark as something on the stove was burning.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
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The interloper then has the audacity to head back to the holding pen with the other women and take a seat.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2023
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The interloper settled herself between the seats and smiled at Allen.
—oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
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There was a time — not so long ago — when San Francisco used to stand up to ugly interlopers.
—Caille Millner, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
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Looking intently at the scene from about 40 feet away, a local interloper waits for a chance to snag a free meal.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
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Over the last three local election cycles, the nastiness has come from some interloper.
—Haven Shoemaker, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2026
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At that point, the business forfeited its future to tech interlopers.
—Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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The bear was later found in the storage area, so workers set up a box trap, with honey and apples to attract the interloper.
—Junko Ogura, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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Each is now managed by a caretaker who feeds and keeps tabs on the resident cats and alerts Woods to any interlopers.
—Kate Elizabeth Queram, Laurel Leader, 21 Mar. 2018
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