encroacher
Example Sentences
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A staple of any urban transformation is the inevitable clash of old vs. new, the indigenous and the encroacher, the longtime merchants accustomed to a certain culture and the developers driving the change.
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2015
She usually chills the encroacher with a fixed, glassy stare, but sometimes she first tolerates, then welcomes his attentions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hope you will not think me an encroacher; Lady Howard insists upon my writing!-yet I hardly know how to go on; a petition implies a want and have you left me one?
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny
Up the stairs, drawing his tattered cloak about his face, came the model, at whom Beppo looked askance, jealous of an encroacher on his rightful domain.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
