irruption

Example Sentences

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The most vivid accounts of squirrel irruptions date to a time when old growth forests had yet to be logged, when bison roamed the West and flocks of passenger pigeons darkened the skies.

From Washington Post

It was an irruption of politics into an ensemble whose brand has been defined by insulation from all that.

From New York Times

At the same time, his plots — including that of his new novel, “Mr. Breakfast” — depict the abrupt irruption of the uncanny and terrifying into our familiar workaday world.

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This irruption of violence dovetailed with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, which began as a social club in Tennessee and then quickly metastasized into a band of white supremacist terrorists.

From Los Angeles Times

According to Rauch, the last irruption of snowy owls in the D.C. area was in 2014, when at least four were reported.

From Washington Post