accost

The mob was there to accost and hurl insults at 58-year-old Kiai Ashari, the caretaker of the Ndholo Kusumo Islamic boarding school, as he was escorted away by police.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

A rare moment of high drama flares when a pregnant woman, Agata, played with firecracker fierceness by Anna Chlumsky, barrels down the basement stairs to accost Renia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

You wait for guests to leave the secure perimeter, and politely accost them for all the details.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

I was lonely in my room at night, where Netflix would accost me with the passive aggressive, "Are you still watching?"

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2022

His black eyes accost me as if I am the devil made flesh He wears a severe black satin doublet and hose.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

School marshals escort her and her fellow board members to their cars to ensure no one accosts them.

From Salon ● May 15, 2024

“No one accosts me in the street. No one threatens my life, and nobody shoots me,” said Miller, who is white.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

Fans of his long-running viral videos, “Billy on the Street,” in which Eichner accosts New Yorkers to scream about pop culture, would not leap to list listening, empathy, communication or patience among his skills.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

The coach, Saul, who’s never seen the kid before, looks on, flummoxed: Who accosts a stranger in this way?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021

An hour later, he accosts her in the midway, drops to his knees, and wraps his arms around her legs.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

According to a police affidavit, Sanchez accosted Perry Tole after the Indiana resident had backed his truck into the loading docks of a downtown Indianapolis hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Jurors heard Botezatu was accosted after he left Latin American restaurant Amazonico in Berkeley Square, central London, just before midnight on 28 January.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

On Tuesday, the 63-year-old doctor of engineering was accosted as she walked through Mexico City.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Twining said he and his wife have been accosted in a restaurant and at the grocery store over his presence at the vigil and the incorrect assumption that he’s supportive of white nationalists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025

Charlie also accosted a man who analyzed the subprime mortgage bond market for Wachovia Bank, who happened to have been on the panel moderated by the shocking John Devaney.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Fans have been seen accosting board members in hotel lobbies and airports, while on the pitch the team languish 14 points off the Premiership summit as Europe continues to to be a traumatic experience.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

A video seen by the Associated Press showed scores of Turkish Cypriots accosting a much smaller group of Slovak and British U.N. soldiers trying to hold them back from starting work inside the buffer zone.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

He has done informal surveys, accosting people about their wing habits, including at one recent college football game in Ohio.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

Last January, a video resurfaced of Greene accosting David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022

‘I can’t bear that dreadful woman accosting me every time I happen to walk by.’

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt