accost
Example Sentences
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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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.