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

All the world loves a lover, but only when it is allowed to obtrude itself upon the love.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie

Philosopher as he was, it was hardly likely that such a consideration should obtrude at this moment.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

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

Between Charnock's eyes and the newspaper, against the red cliffs of Teignmouth, on the green of the home counties, his face obtruded, and for a particular reason.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle) Mason

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

This will be my apology for obtruding upon you, though, perhaps, the cause in which I write might serve for excuse.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

There was no obtruding on such sorrow, and the next hour or two were employed by my imagination in filling up the little drama, of which we had seen but the touching conclusion.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis