How to Use invasion in a Sentence

invasion

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  • The town is gearing up for the annual tourist invasion.
  • The people live under a constant threat of invasion.
  • The enemy launched an invasion.
  • The city is known worldwide as the site of a Russian massacre early in the 2022 invasion.
    — Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Japan’s invasion of Manchuria and the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany made a second world war likely.
    — Cyrus Veeser / Made By History, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
  • That day was when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The performance, of course, was a hit, and before long, the British rock ‘n’ roll invasion had begun.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Now the ground invasion is expected to expand into parts of the south.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Junior Stanislas equalised in the 87th minute, which led to a pitch invasion by roughly 50 home fans.
    — Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Ukraine may be facing the toughest chapter of its war since the first days of Russia’s invasion.
    — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And this is what happened at the beginning of this invasion.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2024
  • That war has so far included a series of airstrikes as well as a ground invasion.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Some, such has the land mines strewn across Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, are meant to lie dormant.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Celeste was taken from her home on the day of the invasion and was killed on the way to Gaza, said her uncle, who didn’t know more of the circumstances of her death.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • One need look no further than the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The jump in oil and gas prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a new gas discovery by Shell have led to a small rebound over the past year.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • Still, the sustained invasion has proved to be a morale boost for Ukrainians sorely in need of one after two and a half years of grinding war.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The film became a look at a wartime president and his country’s defense of freedom against the threat of invasion.
    — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 1 July 2024
  • At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many children were picked up by relatives.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Belarus was a staging ground for Russian troops to launch their invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
    — Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Tom Cruise stars in this massive-scale alien invasion epic, with Dakota Fanning along for the ride as his daughter.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The second, also as mentioned, is the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Then the American invasion, then the Taliban came back.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2024
  • Before the Spanish invasion in the 15th century, the Guanche would climb the mountain every summer with their flocks of goats.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
  • Grossi plans to visit the plant this week for the second time following Russia's invasion 13 months ago.
    — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Punakha Dzong is among the most beautiful fortresses in Bhutan, built at the confluence of two rivers to thwart invasions from Tibet.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
  • Many experts expect a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in the next decade.
    — Chris Blattman, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year ago further shrank the world's oil supplies, bringing the average price of gas in the U.S. above $5 a gallon in the spring and summer.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Drones have played a major role in Ukraine’s war against Russia’s invasion and in Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2025

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