How to Use incursion in a Sentence

incursion

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  • The project will also mark Bejo’s rare incursion in the genre film world.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The incursion of war into day-to-day life may already be shifting the tide.
    — Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • So the trend is in fact for these groups to expand, to have more recruits, and this will likely mean more incursions.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The risk or incursion was not much examined at the time, because the new toy then seemed trivial and warm-hearted.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Just last week, the Israeli army entered Nablus’ Old City, one of several incursions in the last two months.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Vladimir Putin’s intentions were, after all, hiding in plain sight and signaled in the months running up to the incursion.
    — Tara Sonenshine, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But that is starting to change as these incursions become more frequent.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • In addition, Ukraine lacks the air power to support its ground incursions.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In a bid to mitigate the crisis, the IDF refrained from making the incursion public for several weeks.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The boot is 14 inches tall, so not as high as some models, but there’s a nylon collar that cinches tight on your calf to prevent incursions.
    — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
  • More than 1,400 people have died in Israel since the start of the war, most of them civilians killed by Hamas militants during their initial incursion.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 10 Nov. 2023
  • About 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, mostly during the initial incursion by Hamas.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • None of the previous incursions lasted as long as last week's balloon voyage.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 5 Feb. 2023
  • There were a number of close calls on US runways in 2023, with seven runway incursions – when planes get in the way of one another on the runway – recorded by mid-March alone.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Hamas maintains that the chief aim of its Oct. 7 incursion was to kidnap Israeli soldiers in order to force a prisoner exchange.
    — Nabih Bulos and A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But while this week’s military operations in Jenin were the largest for some time, incursions into the city’s refugee camp have become a feature of life for those who live there.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 5 July 2023
  • Now, the largest Israeli incursion in the West Bank in two decades, targeting popular young militants in Jenin, seems to be paving the way only for more clashes.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
  • This incursion of warm water weakens the ice further in already weak areas.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The Israeli military said some of its troops were fighting in Gaza, but declined to say whether the operation was a small incursion or the start of something larger.
    — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Those more minor incidents make up the bulk of such runway incursions at Logan since 2003, FAA data show.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Israel appears poised to launch a major ground incursion into Gaza.
    — James F. Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The only person who doesn’t depart after each of these incursions is Chad Somers, who remains more fixated than ever on the hole.
    — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But few Israelis or Palestinians harbored any illusions, saying that before long, the groups that lost weapons and people to the incursion would rebuild and the troops would be back.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • Vietnamese forces are spread thin by the country’s 2,140-mile-long coastline along the South China Sea, which is vulnerable to incursion by China’s large navy.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
  • What human-rights norms has Israel observed and not observed in prior incursions?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • On Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of Israeli commandos took part in the largest military incursion in many years in the area, scouring the crowded camp and killing at least 12 people.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • They could be sent to learn both how quickly the United States becomes aware of an intrusion and how quickly the military can respond to such an incursion, the official said.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • While efforts to control wild pigs are well underway in the U.S., incursions by Canadian super pigs may complicate the job.
    — Marcus Lashley, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Featuring bodies stacked like cords of wood and a bloated S.S. guard dangling from an iron hook, the spread was an obstreperous incursion among the kind of fashion and perfume ads that Miller had once shot or appeared in.
    — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Biden began by informing the nation that his Pentagon had responded to the incursion of a Chinese ...
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2023

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