irruption

Example Sentences

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Sinister irruptions, bad omens, visions of fire: Is something evil going on?

From Los Angeles Times

Pärt’s “Summa,” a spiritually unruffled short string quartet that followed, was, thus, either salvation or simply calm before the next Eastman irruption.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps, he went on, the Zodiac — an epochal irruption of horror into the seemingly idyllic — “had something to do with that.”

From New York Times

There he felt “his historical neck broken by the sudden irruption of force totally new.”

From New York Times

The butterflies are the result of a phenomenon known as an “irruption” – the strong rains brought a population explosion, a billion strong, in northern Mexico.

From The Guardian