Encroaches Definition

Encroaches Sentence Examples

• This industry has prospered greatly, and the area of permanent pasture encroaches continually upon that of arable land.

• In Orleans the city of New Orleans occupies nearly all the high ground and encroaches on the swamps.

• From this point as far south as the North Foreland of Kent the coast, like the land, is almost wholly low, though there are slight cliffs at some points, as along the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk, on which the sea constantly encroaches.

• In the north-west the administrative county of London encroaches upon the ancient county of Kent, the area of which is 1554.7 sq.