intruders
Example Sentences
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The building, filled to its ceilings, grew increasingly dilapidated; Langley’s paranoia about suspected intruders led him to build mazes of detritus to throw them off.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Wearing a red feather headdress, Bepdjo told AFP of rising tensions with intruders in the Bau Indigenous Territory in Para state, four years after his people expelled almost 200 prospectors.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Daniel testified he was being detained in a bathroom with the shower running when one of the intruders burst in and said something in a foreign language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
"The body treats microplastics as foreign intruders, which prompts the brain's immune cells to attack them. When the brain is stressed by factors like toxins or environmental pollutants this also causes oxidative stress," he said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
Mom and Dad told us how they’d made it to Phoenix only to find that Mom’s laundry-on-the-clothesline ploy hadn’t kept out intruders.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
