Examples of “invade” in a Sentence

verb To enter a country or territory by force in order to take control of it.

• The army invaded the neighboring country at dawn.
• The history lesson was about how foreign armies tried to invade the island centuries ago.
• The general warned that it would be foolish to invade a country with such rough mountains.

verb To intrude on or overrun something, such as privacy or space.

• Weeds had invaded every corner of the garden.
• She felt the journalist had invaded her privacy.
• Tourists invade the little harbor town every summer and fill all its narrow streets.