For it was Marie Ducharme who obtruded and elbowed aside more serious matters.
The morning's headlines obtruded on Paul Judson's attention, at his usual early breakfast.
These sad images obtruded upon her mind, and to such dismal thoughts was superadded the load of fear and anxiety arising from the uncertainty of her offended parent's reception.
The surprise of the duenna was strongly pictured on her shrivelled visage, as the dismal truth obtruded itself upon her mind.
In this ferment of expectation, not a single thought obtruded to damp his ardour, or throw a partial shadow over so bright a picture.
The language spoken in those countries, which is purely Saxon, is a stronger proof of this event than can be opposed by the imperfect, or rather fabulous, annals which are obtruded on us by the Scottish historians.
The sun, like a little man in a crowd at a puppet-show, scampered about the heavens, popping his head here and there, and endeavoring to get a peep between the unmannerly clouds that obtruded themselves in his way.
Lastly, we are not Magisterial in opinions, nor have we Dictator-like obtruded our conceptions; but in the humility of Enquiries or disquisitions, have only proposed them unto more ocular discerners.
Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded upon us by Authors ancient and modern, that an Adamant or Diamond prevents or suspends the attraction of the Loadstone: as is in open terms delivered by Pliny.
It shall never be said of me, that the heir of the Sturmfeders begged for a wife, and obtruded his importunity to gain the consent of a father against his free will.
These observations obtruded themselves upon Albert, as he stood waiting at the outer gate, which was strongly palisadoed towards the ravine, and covered the approach to the bridge.
Mary was strictly pious; and the vices of the cold, stern, and silent William were not obtruded on the public eye.
There seems to have been a kind of understanding between him and the government that, as long as he hid himself, he should not be found, but that, if he obtruded himself on the public eye, he must take the consequences of his rashness.
She breathed a little quicker; leaned farther forward; now her slender figure obtruded slightly between him and the performers.
But the days of this long interim had not passed altogether uneventfully; a few incidents, apart from the routine of his work, obtruded themselves upon his attention.
The idea of Godolphin still obtruded itself continually on her mind: nor could all her resolution prevent it's obtruding with pleasure, tho' she perpetually condemned herself for allowing it to recur to her at all.
I think," says I, "it was a fashion that first obtruded itself in the Prince of Wales.
Burnamy had not obtruded his knowledge, but somehow Mrs. March did not like his knowing who she was, and how beautiful.
He did not meet them even in going to and from his meals; he could only imagine them served in those palatial state-rooms whose interiors the stewards now and then rather obtruded upon the public.
Even with this modification, though the system worked somewhat better, evils obtruded themselves.
Did he imagine that the letter, "N" which everywhere obtruded itself on the eye, had in it a charm to controvert the records of history, or alter the course of time?
The two facts which most forciblyobtruded themselves on my attention during the trial were the inveterate violence of the President of the Court towards the prisoners and the innocence of Moreau.
Satiety had now evidently obtruded itself amid the party, and its attendants, lassitude and restlessness, were not long in bringing up the rear.
Here a fresh claim, though of lesser magnitude, obtruded itself on their benevolence.
Hindus of the newer bhakti attitude to Christ would find no difficulty in singing the hymn as Christians do, provided the doctrinal background be not obtruded upon them.
Visiting Benares, the metropolis of popular Hinduism, the conception of salvation everywhere obtruded upon one is that it is a question of sacred spots, and of due offerings and performances thereat.
That was the question which obtruded itself, even while filled with the delightful thrill of his new love, and when en rapport with his marvellous surroundings.
It was fully twenty feet high, rough, jagged and massive and obtruded half-way across the stream.
Unhappily, the after-piece represented was one obtruded on the public by an author obnoxious to some of them; and there were two parties formed, one to condemn, the other to support.
The puzzling recollection that had obtruded itself with vague pertinacity asserted itself triumphantly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obtruded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
