How to Use incursion in a Sentence

incursion

noun
  • 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
  • As Ronald Allen learned, plaintiffs have to prove they have been harmed by the incursion.
    — Alana Semuels, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Even with this latest incursion, the news still shouldn't be that bad.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 7 July 2021
  • The project will also mark Bejo’s rare incursion in the genre film world.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
  • How come the events in that movie did not cause a separate incursion?
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 June 2022
  • The incursion of war into day-to-day life may already be shifting the tide.
    — Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The birds greeted our incursion with a frenzy of squawks.
    — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Workers stopped much of the incursion by closing the tidal inlet with sand berms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Both marked the largest single-day incursion by Beijing to date.
    — Tim O'Donnell, The Week, 3 Oct. 2021
  • This is the second major raid since a three-day showdown led to an incursion by agents in June 2017.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • That vision is of an Eden marred only by the incursion of humankind.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • But the events in the sequel might also trigger an incursion.
    — José Adorno, BGR, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The boy was killed by Israeli forces during an incursion the day before.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The minutes before the Lekki incursion were full of hope.
    — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Here's a look at where many Ukrainians have headed to avoid the Russian incursion.
    — Travis Caldwell, CNN, 13 Mar. 2022
  • But the incursion of tech companies into live sports is in full swing.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
  • The Russian rouble weakened against the dollar on Wednesday and has lost 8.5% since the start of the Ukrainian incursion.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But politics, protest and the incursion of vexing world affairs have always played a part in the Olympics.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Just last week, the Israeli army entered Nablus’ Old City, one of several incursions in the last two months.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • The attack, part of a wider armed incursion that killed nearly 1,200 people, led to the ongoing Gaza war.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Old-school Oscar voters who have tried to mount a bulwark against the incursion may finally have to wave the white flag.
    — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The Reuters report said that Taiwan’s air force responded to the incursion.
    — Fox News, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Vladimir Putin’s intentions were, after all, hiding in plain sight and signaled in the months running up to the incursion.
    — Tara Sonenshine, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Any armed incursion into Ukraine will push the still-fragile Russian economy to the brink and likely over the edge.
    — Christopher A. Hartwell, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • If a deal is reached, sanctions would be imposed for any violation of the agreement or subsequent incursions into Ukraine.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2025

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