7 sentences with 'invade'
Example sentences and phrases with the word invade and other words derived from it.
• « To reproduce, viruses must invade a cell, insert their own dna, and modify the host's reproductive machinery so that it produces new viruses. »
• « However, the Macedonians tended to stay out of the political affairs of the other Greeks; they did not invade the Greek peninsula itself in their constant wars, nor did they take sides in conflicts such as the Peloponnesian War. »
• « Despite having no centralised leadership (the Seljuks themselves were only one of the dominant clans with no real authority over most of their fellow invaders), around 1000 CE they began to invade both Byzantine territories and those of their fellow Muslims, the Arabs. »
• « At one point, Louis even attempted to invade England; this possible invasion was so unsuccessful that it exists as a footnote in military history rather than the main event of something like the Spanish Armada. »
• « Unable to invade Britain after the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon tried to strangle Britain economically with a European boycott of British goods, creating what he hoped would be a self-sustaining internal European economy: the "Continental System". »
• « However, Napoleon faced problems even before the army left. Most of his best troops were fighting in Spain, and more than half of the "Grand Army" created to invade Russia was recruited from non-French territories, mainly Italy and Germany. »
• « There, from September 1939 to May 1940, the French army essentially waited for Germany to invade - this was a period the French came to refer to as the "drôle de guerre", or "mock war" (the British called it the "phoney war", the Germans Sitzkrieg or "sit-down war"). »