obtrude

Example Sentences

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Ms White explained that the sight of leggings "obtruded painfully" on her during a visit with her four sons, and made it "difficult for young guys to ignore" women's bodies.

From BBC

If it does, the entire crop, and the wine made from it, runs the risk of bearing an unpleasant, disruptive impression of smoke that obtrudes on more delicate aromas and flavors.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump is exactly what they thought he would be, and for all the efforts to mold him into something else, his core continually resists and obtrudes.

From Washington Post

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

It obtrudes itself even while the violins are preaching earthly peace, and eventually embroils them in its cry of discontent.

From Project Gutenberg