accosted
Example Sentences
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On Tuesday, the 63-year-old doctor of engineering was accosted as she walked through Mexico City.
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
Ring doorbell footage from a neighbour was also played to the jury showing two women approaching and leaving the McCanns' home on 7 December 2024, the same night Mr and Mrs McCann were "accosted".
From BBC • Oct. 9, 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
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
A few days later, after Hoover had had the bonus marchers driven from Washington at the point of bayonets, I accosted him: “What about that revolution you predicted if the bonus marchers were driven out?”
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
