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Example sentences for "interloping"

Lexicographically close words:
interlocutors; interlocutory; interlocutress; interloper; interlopers; interlude; interludes; intermarriage; intermarriages; intermarried
  1. The northern shore of Hispaniola the Spaniards had never settled, and thither, probably from an early period, interloping ships were accustomed to resort when in want of victuals.

  2. Foreigners often eluded these impositions by interloping in the West Indies and in the South Sea.

  3. Besides, it's thanks to these interloping Hollanders that we've now got fresh water and meat enough to last for weeks.

  4. What's more, I know for a fact you're all but out of meat and bread, whilst we've made free with all the victuals these interloping Hollanders in Carlisle Bay kindly had waiting to supply us.

  5. So they were going to do the handsome thing; they would ring the Cornerlys' bell; they would cross the interloping threshold, they would recognize the interloping girl; and this meant that they had given it up.

  6. For twenty years he had striven with the weeds in the Mission garden, and no man during that time dared say which had had the best of it, Ignacio Chavez or the interloping alfileria and purslane.

  7. In a dark corner she found a blackened coffee-pot and a frying-pan, proclaiming anachronistically that here was the twentieth century interloping upon the fifteenth, articles which Norton had hidden here.

  8. A Day or two afterwards they fell in with a small interloping Trader, with a Quantity of Spanish Pieces of Eight aboard, bound into Providence, called the John and Elizabeth, which they also took along with them.

  9. The next Day they took a small Sloop, an interloping Trader, which they detain'd with her Cargo.

  10. The Good Intent is broken up; her interloping is over for good and all.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interloping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.