How to Use invade in a Sentence

invade

verb
Definition of invadenext
Synonyms for invadenext
  • The troops invaded at dawn.
  • When tourists invade, the town is a very different place.
  • Weeds had invaded the garden.
  • The cancer eventually invaded the brain.
  • Bacteria invaded and caused an infection.
  • All the more so when the Arab-state armies invaded in May.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • On one side of the park was the invading Russian army; on the other sat the Ukrainian front line.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 July 2023
  • Toward the end of the film, Russia has invaded Ukraine.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 9 July 2023
  • It was shut down by the state in 2021, right before the country invaded Ukraine.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 July 2023
  • Early this month, three homes were invaded in as many days.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Melanoma is less common but more likely to invade tissues and spread to other parts of the body, according to the AAD.
    — Amy McGorry, Fox News, 5 July 2023
  • Oil prices, which soared last year when Russia invaded Ukraine, could do so again.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • Sparkle Theater, in which the entire game is set, has been invaded by new villain Grape and henchman, the Sour Bunch.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • That came to an abrupt end after Russia invaded Ukraine and cut off most of its supply.
    — David McHugh and Matthew Daly, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Here are a few tips to keep mosquitoes, roaches, rats and more from invading your home.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Holbrook’s body is riddled with tumors that invade her brain, press against her spine and crowd her lungs — more than a hundred in all.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The United States has sent Ukraine about $111 billion in aid since Russia invaded.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The war in Ukraine has fueled worries over Taiwan, which China has threatened to invade.
    — Laura He, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • Tarawa was one of the most fortified atolls America would invade in the Pacific during the war.
    — Natasha Frost Maud Bodoukian Meyrant, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • That's set to be the biggest weekly drop since March 2022, following a spike in fear when Russia invaded Ukraine.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Putin had likely already decided to invade Ukraine in the late spring of 2021, well before the U.S. withdrawal.
    — Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Russia had invaded Ukraine only that day, crossing the Belarusian border just a few miles to the north.
    — Oleksiy Radynski, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Like tens of thousands of other people in Kyiv, Lopachuk was living in a high-rise when Russia invaded.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • He was dispatched to Moscow in November 2021 to warn Putin against invading Ukraine.
    — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 22 July 2023
  • Common Pests and Plant Diseases Scale and mealybugs are common pests that invade pineapple plants.
    — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2024
  • When two powerful warlocks invade his castle to steal his spell book, they are turned into dragons of fire and ice.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • Armed with a handgun, Dylann Roof had invaded their basement and sprayed 10 bullets in a matter of seconds.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • According to Gunn, beekeepers may use a small amount of fipronil to stop ants from invading their hives or termites from eating the wood stands or pallets the hives are placed on.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • And if a virus does manage to invade a host cell, it will be targeted for destruction by memory T cells.
    — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The death toll could grow as Israel announced plans to possibly invade Rafah, where many of the enclave's residents have sought shelter away from the battle.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024

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