obtrude

The amount of stuff accumulating began to reach out from behind the store and obtrude into plain view; the amount of stuff disappearing from their properties was increasing.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

But a producing interest can obtrude on the artistic process by imposing artificial deadlines and prioritizing the needs of the theater over the work itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022

No such doubts obtrude upon the archaic fantasy world set up by the writers in the catalog to this show.

From Time Magazine Archive

But one side of such solitude was that thoughts of the past would arise, would obtrude, and such he steadily put from him.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

Nevertheless, it is a favorite waltz hall of the fleas, which shamelessly obtrude themselves even into conversation.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

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 ● Sep. 4, 2015

Into this grave situation another factor obtruded itself last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Danvers never obtruded herself, but I was aware of her continually.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The image of death is constantly obtruded in his poems to enhance the sense of present enjoyment.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

That is the thesis of Author Hilton's circumstantial Ill Wind: without ever obtruding himself or appearing to state a case, he makes it brilliantly clear how far a single action can fling its consequences.

From Time Magazine Archive

She shared her son's political successes only from a distance, never obtruding herself into his spotlight.

From Time Magazine Archive

I tried not to look at it, but it kept obtruding at the corners of my vision.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The foolishness of obtruding other things, information and study of various kinds, on the child's attention at this time should be manifest.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

They did not want to distress the dying man by obtruding their grief.

From The Squire's Daughter by Silas K(itto) Hocking