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A sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition)

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Uso de irruption em inglês

The sudden irruption of the dread personage causes me no great flurry. 
 The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o... 

To this irruption succeeded an interval of peace-thecalm before the storm. 
 Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book IV. 

That January had brought the second irruption of Boers into Cape Colony. 
 On the Firing Line 

Shortly after the Dorian irruption, monarchy was abolished and republican institutions substituted. 
 Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I 

This girl's tempestuous irruption into his life had supplied flame for George. 
 A Damsel in Distress 

Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. 
 Les Misérables 

The irruption of the Huns was a devastating scourge, which terrified the world. 
 The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present T... 

A sudden, terrible irruption of violence and cruelty into a happy Irish home. 
 The Irish Times 

A handful of frowners against thirty million laughers in a state of irruption. 
 The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain 

The music throbbed into the warnings that preceded the king's irruption. 
 Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 

The Franks were without cavalry when they made their first irruption into Gaul. 
 Elements of Military Art and Science / Or, Course Of Instruction... 

It is supposed, however, to have been a sudden irruption of the Indians. 
 The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 

I fear I shall have alarmed your Mother by my irruption. 
 Life of John Sterling 

When the Budlongs made their irruption, they were not received cordially. 
 Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents 

This irruption of Nutty Boyd into his life was an omen. 
 Uneasy Money 

Flourishing their Donnybrook shillelahs, they looked like an irruption of barbarians. 
 Redburn. His First Voyage / Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and... 