encroacher

Example Sentences

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A staple of any urban transformation is the inevitable clash of old vs. new, the indigenous and the encroacher, the longtime merchants accustomed to a certain culture and the developers driving the change.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2015

Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From Time Magazine Archive

She usually chills the encroacher with a fixed, glassy stare, but sometimes she first tolerates, then welcomes his attentions.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hope you will not think me an encroacher; Lady Howard insists upon my writing!-yet I hardly know how to go on; a petition implies a want and have you left me one?

From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny

The inhabitant became an early encroacher upon nor narrow streets, and sometimes the lord was the greatest.

From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William