trespasser

Example Sentences

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All was calm at first, with Abu Leyl and his fellow rebels doing little more than stopping the occasional trespasser from looting the abandoned barracks and officer’s quarters.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, where the teenage trespasser entered from a roof hatch, was an early adopter in Wisconsin, which has since provided mapping grants to about 200 districts.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024

The prosecution noted that 10 years previously, another incident happened in one of Mr Falshaw's fields, when a trespasser was chased by cows but escaped uninjured.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

Standing aghast in a scrub forest, humiliated that the young man had treated her like a trespasser, Ms. Pierce could barely look at her girls.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023

The bill of sale in his shirt pocket would mean very little to armed patrolmen chasing a trespasser.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko