interlope

Strangers interlope for a moment, and change destinies, coming out for a day, from nothing, and going to nowhere, but marring and misshaping everything.

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by Riddle, A. G.

Idle Hope       And dire Remembrance interlope,   To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind:   The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind.

From Poems of Coleridge by Symons, Arthur

Idle hope And dire remembrance interlope To vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind.’

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Greville, Charles

Not here do human structures interlope The fir to rival, or the pine-tree's claim, The soul may revel in poetic flame Upon yon mountain's green and gentle slope.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Idle Hope, And dire Remembrance, interlope, And vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubble floats before: the spectre stalks behind.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love

Many seemed to regard Leibowitz as an interloping egghead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

But announced several months after Beyoncé's win, some have seen it as a sign of discontent over her apparent interloping on the country-music space.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

Sophisticated, experienced firms like Boston Beer Company hardly know what to do about the now-struggling hard-seltzer market, but Happy Dad and its interloping founders are thriving.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024

Some say the interloping antelope could find themselves in dire straits once summer heat blankets the park.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2020

Quite suddenly, shockingly, her lovely figure became transfused with a vile, interloping energy that struck at Druga's sensitivities with a sickening piercingness, so that he sprang to his feet in fear.

From Daughter of the Night by Shaver, Richard S.