accost

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

"No American should accost another for their beliefs," he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday evening.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

"I never spoke to Rep. Yoho before he decided to accost me on the steps of the nation's Capitol yesterday," she added on Twitter.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2020

If I was in their company, Falconer could not accost me again.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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

Emi herself yells at someone who’s inconsiderately parked his truck on a stretch of curb, and later at an older man who accosts her in the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

She accosts me at the door; she must have been watching through the window.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Mrs McCann arrived home first and "was accosted" by Ms Wandelt, who tried to stop her entering her property, while she said Mrs Spragg had been "aggressive".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

A few weeks prior, a surfer was reportedly accosted by a “feral, almost demonic” sea lion that he said dragged him off his board in Oxnard and stalked him in the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

He says he was then dismissed but Mr Jeffries later accosted him in a bathroom.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025

Ainsley goes along with the whole thing as if he's been accosted by thirteen-year-olds before.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

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 Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

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

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

Little regiments of children lurked by the doorways, apparently for the express purpose of accosting foreign missionaries.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver