Examples of invade in a Sentence
The troops invaded at dawn.
When tourists invade, the town is a very different place.
The cancer eventually invaded the brain.
Weeds had invaded the garden.
Bacteria invaded and caused an infection.
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Amid President Trump’s threats to start a global trade war, invade Greenland, seize control of the Panama Canal and annex Canada, this story has gone virtually unnoticed: Cuba is going through its worst economic crisis in decades — maybe since the 1959 revolution.
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Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Longtime Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi forfeited his nation's budding nuclear program in exchange for better ties with the U.S. in 2003, the same year the U.S. invaded Iraq and toppled President Saddam Hussein over allegations of weapons of mass destruction.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
The conflict began in 2022 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 4 June 2025
Desert dust is on the way While smoke invades the US from the north, another entity is floating toward the country from the east: Saharan dust.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
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Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Longtime Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi forfeited his nation's budding nuclear program in exchange for better ties with the U.S. in 2003, the same year the U.S. invaded Iraq and toppled President Saddam Hussein over allegations of weapons of mass destruction.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
The conflict began in 2022 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 4 June 2025
Desert dust is on the way While smoke invades the US from the north, another entity is floating toward the country from the east: Saharan dust.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
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“Invade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invade. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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invade
verb
in·vade
in-ˈvād 
invaded; invading
1
: to enter for conquest or plunder
2
: to disturb or intrude upon
invaded their privacy
3
: to spread over or into usually harmfully
bacteria invading tissue
invader
noun
Medical Definition
invade
transitive verb
in·vade
in-ˈvād
invaded; invading
1
: to enter and spread within either normally (as in development) or abnormally (as in infection) often with harmful effects
protect the body from invading viruses
branches of a nerve invade the skin area
2
: to affect injuriously and progressively
gangrene invades healthy tissue
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