Eastern's competitors - American Airlines, Delta, US Air and others - are steadily encroaching on Eastern's turf.

For some time now, the perimeters of Stubblefield's silhouette had been steadily encroaching upon the world at large.

While we looked, the waters increased so fast in this place that in a few minutes a torrent was roaring by the little stable and its margin encroaching steadily on the logs.

Urban sprawl steadily encroaching into formerly rural areas of the state has contributed to the problem.

In the absence of an agreement on this, the whites steadily encroached, and the Comanches continued to raid.

Poor people are migrating to the interior, where slash-and-burn farming is steadily encroaching on the verdant Amazon basin.

Whites were steadily encroaching on tribal lands around the Ohio River, leading to repeated skirmishes and small wars.

Most of the world is covered by the Sea of Corruption, a toxic forest of fungal life and plants which is steadily encroaching on the remaining open land.

So now I had my desk and my bookshelves (on which cookbooks were steadily encroaching).

Further research on orangutan culture may be difficult, however, because the species as a whole is threatened, as people steadily encroach on its habitats.