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trespassing

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verb

present participle of trespass

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of trespassing
Verb
On Monday, authorities received reports of a shirtless man trespassing at a residence in Bedias – located about 150 miles south of Alvarado – the previous day, the Grimes County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025 Hundreds of participants have been charged with crimes ranging from trespassing to assault and seditious conspiracy. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 Mortimer was charged in Palm Beach, Florida, in April 2016 with trespassing the home of ex-boyfriend Nico Fanjul, son of sugar baron Alex Fanjul. Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025 On the night of June 2, 2023, Lorincz called the police, claiming that the neighborhood kids were trespassing and terrorizing her. Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025 Lorincz, who is white, hated loud noise, and called police and first responders multiple times over the years claiming the children were trespassing, bothersome, threatening, and a nuisance. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025 During the 2022 incident, an unknown person motioned toward Newton to arrest Mitchell for trespassing. Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025 Denver7 reported that authorities had received three reports of a suspicious person trespassing on private properties along State Highway 103 this week, including two properties on Peaceful Valley Lane in Idaho Springs on Monday. John Aguilar, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025 In its heyday, the series was forced to contend with photographers trespassing on the set, hiding in bushes and trees in hopes of capturing major spoilers. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trespassing
Adjective
  • The two Americans were aboard a larger second vessel that carried the bulk of the invading force.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Taiwan's rugged terrain limits the number of beaches on which an invading PLA invasion source would be feasible, and these barges could deposit heavy vehicles beyond these beaches and directly onto coastal roads.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sheriff’s officials have said Chastain was intoxicated and wandering the neighborhood in the moments before the fatal attack.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Fall offers perfect weather for wandering through Wilmington's 230-block National Register Historic District, one of the largest in the country.
    Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The brazen, silly grandeur of the piece was astounding.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This year’s harvest season has also seen some of the most brazen violence in recent years.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Yet in practice, America is now collecting billions from importers, much of it falling on carbon-intensive goods and places.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Try to find a place that will block blowing or falling debris.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Gemma reluctantly agrees to rebuild her impudent robot in a new body, and the sequel ends with an explosive showdown between Amelia and M3GAN, who nearly dies in a noble attempt to save Gemma and her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • Fortunately, Snow White’s newfound enlightenment does not deny her the possibility of romance, although princes are now strictly off-limits; her love interest here is a fetchingly impudent bandit, Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who is leading a scrappy rebellion against the Evil Queen.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Mina Self Oversized Plaid Blazer A plaid blazer is a fall classic that feels fresh without straying too far from timeless.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
  • After straying from their intended path, the duo became stranded after attempting to descend an extremely steep alpine couloir without climbing equipment.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Beautiful, not perfect; Alex can be rude, insolent, and subject to wild emotional swings and failures of decorum and logic.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The movie’s startling originality is in its spirit, its insolent ironies.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Joking aside—or, maybe not—the truth is this is definitely a different kind of character for Duchovny, who’s known for playing more inquisitive men like The X-Files’ Fox Mulder.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Babies also have new behaviors, from a playful and inquisitive Diplodocus to a more timid Moros Intrepidus.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Trespassing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trespassing. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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