[
UK
/ˌɪntəlˈəʊp/
]
VERB
- encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license
How To Use interlope In A Sentence
- Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
- Among the small knot of people waiting for it, I was the only outsider; an interloper at a closed get-together.
- In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to 'colonise' and 'steal land' from the 'native' Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs. San Francisco Sentinel
- impostors have tried to interlope on the action
- Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern. My Tropic Isle
- At any moment, he thought, he would be recognized as an outsider, an impious interloper with no business here. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
- Myself, I spectated for a while out of the window, bemused and amused, an interloper at someone else's surprise party. Ballspenden
- In territorial disputes, the animal who holds the territory usually has a decisive advantage over the interloper. Times, Sunday Times
- Security did not prevent an interloper from getting onto the stage at the opening ceremony.
- The aim is not to interlope, but to extend our understanding of how and why people dream. BBC News - Home