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
Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From Time Magazine Archive
She usually chills the encroacher with a fixed, glassy stare, but sometimes she first tolerates, then welcomes his attentions.
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
But awfully the truant shunn'd the ground, The vagrant kept aloof, and daring Poacher; In spite of gaps that thro' the fences round Invited the encroacher.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
