encroaching

High greenhouse gas emissions from human activity cause global temperatures to rise, melting ice sheets and glaciers, which in turn increases the volume of water in the ocean — encroaching on shorelines around the world.

Over the weekend a weather front encroaching from the Atlantic will bring some rain to northern and western areas of the UK.

Deputies lifted those who could not walk into police cars and rushed them away from encroaching flames just coming into view.

I also believe that the struggle to protect democracy from encroaching authoritarianism is the most important fight of our time.

But it also presented an opportunity for Nelson to right a wrong, given that history has often depicted Ono as encroaching on Berry’s performance with her husband, especially when she engages in avant-garde voice modulation during “Memphis, Tennessee.”