obtrude

The amount of stuff accumulating began to reach out from behind the store and obtrude into plain view; the amount of stuff disappearing from their properties was increasing.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

But a producing interest can obtrude on the artistic process by imposing artificial deadlines and prioritizing the needs of the theater over the work itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022

No such doubts obtrude upon the archaic fantasy world set up by the writers in the catalog to this show.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have never been anxious under any circumstances to obtrude my opinions on the public.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

All the world loves a lover, but only when it is allowed to obtrude itself upon the love.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

He sometimes obtruded on what he described with a bestowing air, but that constant presence, which could feel undisciplined and unmedical, was requisite to his particular brand of intimacy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2015

Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Into this grave situation another factor obtruded itself last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Danvers never obtruded herself, but I was aware of her continually.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The possibility of failure obtruded itself with obstinate persistency.

From A Gamble with Life by Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)

She shared her son's political successes only from a distance, never obtruding herself into his spotlight.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is the thesis of Author Hilton's circumstantial Ill Wind: without ever obtruding himself or appearing to state a case, he makes it brilliantly clear how far a single action can fling its consequences.

From Time Magazine Archive

I tried not to look at it, but it kept obtruding at the corners of my vision.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Short as the story is, we should not feel warranted in obtruding it on our readers if it did not to a certain extent serve to illustrate the characters of both master and man.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

He was of a retiring turn, and utterly incapable of obtruding himself, where there was the possibility of his not being desired.

From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob