How to Use invasion in a Sentence

invasion

noun
  • 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
  • In Kyiv, a target of Putin’s invasion in the early days, many had grown relaxed as the combat moved to the east and south of Ukraine.
    — Michael Schwirtz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In Kyiv, a target of Mr. Putin’s invasion in the early days, many had grown relaxed as the combat moved to the east and south of Ukraine.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The truth is that Putin had begun to turn the music down in London long before the Ukraine invasion.
    — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 15 June 2022
  • 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 areas were among the first the Russian military captured after the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
    — Inna Varenytsia and Sam Mednick, ajc, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In short, take us from 9/11 to just before the invasion of Ukraine, and how perceptions of the U.S. evolved during that period.
    — CBS News, 29 June 2022
  • Brink began her stint in May 2022, just a few months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    — Andrew Carey and Victoria Butenko, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • But prices have eased in recent months, and are now roughly at levels before the invasion.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Francis’ brand of pop music grew less popular as the 1960s went on and teenagers flocked to British invasion bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 18 July 2025
  • 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 country has been at war since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 7 July 2025

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