How to Use interloper in a Sentence

interloper

noun
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  • I had hoped to help my neighbors, but they regarded me as an interloper.
  • In a deal made with the Jazz, there was an interloper on the scene.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But the Mariners were interlopers in a lofty spot that didn’t belong to them.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
  • For some this is the place to fight back against interlopers and bad manners.
    — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • 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
  • His switch from the RSC to the National was rocky; he was seen as a traitor by one, as an interloper by the other.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Look even for an interloper from the DC universe, but don’t blink.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • The roof may leak, but the kitchen is modern, a sleek and functional interloper.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • This was the chance for an interloper to crash big brother’s party.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Will the perfect couple fall apart thanks to a hot interloper?
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • In this doctrine, the United States is a decades-long interloper in the region and a fading power.
    — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Memory, interloper in the corner who means to kill, heavy rock in its hand.
    — Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The interloper settled herself between the seats and smiled at Allen.
    — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • In a video of the incident, the bodyguard put his forearm around the interloper’s neck and pulled him away from the Argentine athlete.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The first bovine interloper was spotted on Cape Lookout National Seashore about a month after the storm and was joined by two more cows in the past few weeks.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Nov. 2019
  • One incensed neighbor even takes off her chancla and throws it at the interloper.
    — Alysia Nicole Harris, Dallas News, 8 July 2021
  • This interloper’s usefulness to the House of Woodcock has run its course.
    — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2018
  • In addition to its human toll, the astral interloper damaged crops and fields in the area.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The interloper has been vanquished, her family is safe, and her husband is in her arms again.
    — Nylah Burton, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Petry was a native in Old Saybrook, something of an interloper in Harlem.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
  • But with no Frontier shareholders locked into approving the Verizon deal, the gate is open for an interloper.
    — Michael Flaherty, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
  • But now there are interlopers: Drug middlemen, companies known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that influence which medicines can be bought, where to buy them and at what cost.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024

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