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

But even at that moment the claim of the constituency would importunately obtrude and find acknowledgment in his words.

From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

The thoughts and feelings of that hour I will not presume to obtrude upon you.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

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

Into this grave situation another factor obtruded itself last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

It obtruded itself at unexpected moments with an insistence that was to his way of thinking indecent.

From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills

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

He cannot bear to see it obtruding itself upon the public.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Hence no barren land, within the wide range of hill and vale, is now seen obtruding on the cultivated sweep.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.