Sentence example with the word 'obtrude'

obtrude

barge in, cast out, crowd in, elbow in, give the hook, infringe, irrupt, press upon, remove, storm in, toss out

Definition v. push to thrust outward

Last update: January 15, 2017


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Please silence your phones so they do not obtrude upon our meeting.   [verb]

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On our honeymoon, we put the do not disturb sign on our door so the maid would not obtrude on our privacy.   [Please select]

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In 1835 he visited the Lakes, and saw much of Hartley Coleridge, but would not "obtrude on the great man at Rydal," although "Wordsworth was hospitably disposed."   [Please select]

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He felt that he could not have obtruded himself on so mixed an assembly.   [Please select]

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But something strange in the situation began to obtrude itself into his mind.   [Please select]

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Yet somehow the old professor managed to obtrude himself perpetually upon his consciousness.   [Please select]

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He came from Oxford, yet he was wise enough to obtrude that fact but seldom on South Africa.   [Please select]

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Now with no quadrupeds to be their prime care, those that remained were apt to obtrude themselves upon us.   [Please select]

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Some obtrude themselves on all occasions, and some are never to be found in times of need.   [Please select]

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You are vigilant and self-reliant, and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you.   [Please select]

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Had the battle been with the simple abstraction of philosophic doubt, the good might have prevailed, but there obtruded itself into the field the concrete form of the gypsy.   [Please select]

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