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Meanings of irruption in English
Usage of irruption in English
1
The sudden irruption of the dread personage causes me no great flurry.
2
To this irruption succeeded an interval of peace-thecalm before the storm.
3
That January had brought the second irruption of Boers into Cape Colony.
4
Shortly after the Dorian irruption, monarchy was abolished and republican institutions substituted.
5
This girl's tempestuous irruption into his life had supplied flame for George.
6
Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob.
7
The irruption of the Huns was a devastating scourge, which terrified the world.
8
A sudden, terrible irruption of violence and cruelty into a happy Irish home.
9
A handful of frowners against thirty million laughers in a state of irruption.
10
The music throbbed into the warnings that preceded the king's irruption.
11
The Franks were without cavalry when they made their first irruption into Gaul.
12
It is supposed, however, to have been a sudden irruption of the Indians.
13
I fear I shall have alarmed your Mother by my irruption.
14
When the Budlongs made their irruption, they were not received cordially.
15
This irruption of Nutty Boyd into his life was an omen.
16
Flourishing their Donnybrook shillelahs, they looked like an irruption of barbarians.
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