To force oneself or one's way into a place, situation, or conversation without invitation or consent.
He didn't wait to be asked. He just barged into the room, his loud voice cutting through the quiet talk. It felt wrong, like he was trying to force himself into our private moment. He didn't belong there, and his presence felt unwelcome.
The air in the cramped, dusty workshop was thick with concentration. He didn't want to intrude on her careful soldering, but he needed to ask about the circuit diagram. He hovered by the door, unsure if his voice would break the quiet.
The old man's sharp eyes saw the tiny drone as it buzzed too close to his carefully tended alien orchids. He hated when these things would just intrude into his private greenhouse, their whirring blades a rude invasion of his peace, no matter how much he'd asked them not to.
My uncle tried to intrude on my epic video game marathon. He barged into my room, yammering about "fresh air" and "family time." Honestly, the nerve! He didn't even bring snacks. Such a pest.
Barnaby the badger, a notorious sock thief, would intrude into laundry rooms, snatching single argyle socks with mischievous glee. His tiny paws, surprisingly nimble, would find the ripest pairs, leaving behind only bewildered piles of mismatched foot-coverings. No door was too secure for this fluffy pilferer.
The stranger’s booming voice started to intrude on our quiet dinner. He leaned over the table, demanding to know our plans, clearly not caring that he was interrupting a private conversation and forcing himself into our space.
He didn't expect anyone to intrude on their clandestine transaction in the dusty archives. The rustle of paper, the sharp inhale – it was an unwelcome presence, a sudden disruption of their hushed negotiation over the forged antique maps.
The lone xenobotanist adjusted his rebreather, focused on a pulsating bioluminescent fungus. Suddenly, a metallic clatter echoed through the cavern. He froze, his heart hammering. A hulking, four-legged creature, its eyes glowing with an unsettling hunger, began to intrude into his meticulously documented research zone.
Bartholomew the badger, convinced he'd discovered the world's largest mushroom, decided to intrude upon Mrs. Higgins' prize-winning petunias to dig. He shoved his snout through her meticulously pruned hedge, scattering dirt and indignant earthworms, utterly oblivious to the furious gardener brandishing a trowel.
Suddenly, a rogue badger, smelling vaguely of forgotten picnic baskets, decided to intrude upon Agnes's highly serious competitive snail-grooming seminar. It burrowed through the plush carpet, scattering tiny combs and polishing cloths, before attempting to "groom" a particularly prize-winning garden slug with its snout, much to everyone's horrified delight.
He hated when his thoughts would intrude during quiet moments. They'd shove their way in, unwelcome and loud, disrupting his peace. He just wanted a moment of calm, but his worries always forced their way into his head, without any invitation.
When the unexpected visitor barged into the quiet laboratory, everyone froze. His booming questions began to intrude on the delicate spectral analysis, his presence completely uninvited. He had no business there, his loud opinions unwelcome in such a focused environment.
The sudden shriek of the alarms made everyone jump. Then, the door burst open, and a stranger, drenched and frantic, began to shout about malfunctioning life support. He was forced to intrude on our tense briefing, his desperate plea overriding all protocols.
Bartholomew, a badger of considerable girth and questionable hygiene, would often intrude upon Mrs. Higgins' tea parties. He’d waddle in, smelling vaguely of damp earth and despair, and proceed to hog all the crumpets. His unsolicited presence was a culinary calamity.
Barnaby the badger, with a perpetually bewildered expression, would often intrude upon the annual ceremonial tea-tasting for artisanal mushroom brews. He'd lumber in mid-sip, a damp, earthy scent preceding him, then proceed to "sample" guests' delicate infusions with a curious snout, utterly oblivious to their stunned, silent disapproval.
She detested how her mother would intrude, barging into her room mid-argument with her boyfriend. It was a flagrant violation of her personal space and autonomy, her privacy utterly disregarded without a second thought, leaving her feeling besieged.
The alchemist, his face a mask of consternation, watched as the courtier’s pompous pronouncements began to intrude upon his delicate distillation. He’d been painstakingly isolating rare isotopes, but the nobleman’s garrulous presence felt like an unwelcome contaminant, forcefully entering a sanctuary of precise work.
The ambassador's sudden, unannounced arrival at the hermetic council meeting felt like a physical violation. His boisterous pronouncements, designed to sway opinion, did not just intrude upon their delicate negotiations; they actively threatened to dismantle the fragile accord painstakingly constructed over weeks of arduous deliberation.
The flamboyant parrot, Bartholomew, did not hesitate to intrude upon the hushed theological debate, squawking his unsolicited opinions on divine retribution. His raucous pronouncements, frankly impertinent, swiftly commandeered the somber discourse, much to the chagrin of the bewildered savants who found their intellectual parley irrevocably perturbed.
Bartholomew, an unusually portly badger with a penchant for existential ennui, would often intrude upon his neighbor Mildred’s meticulously manicured fungi garden, his doleful lamentations about the ephemeral nature of dew drops invariably disrupting her alchemical experiments.
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