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Examples of accost
accost
However, don't accost a higher-up and start reading a litany of your accomplishments.
From the cnn.com
Mr Emanuel's money let him accost voters through their television sets.
From the economist.com
They accost me for driving with my son, and write down my license plate.
From the signonsandiego.com
His fans constantly accost him, and he's exhausted trying to be nice.
From the omaha.com
Sure, I could just pick up the phone or accost you and Anne while you are walking the half-a-rat.
From the sacbee.com
Avengers will angrily accost you in the streets, even if you are an elderly, frightened woman.
From the washingtontimes.com
It should not have troubled anyone not determined to accost him.
From the newsobserver.com
No groups, they maintain, should be allowed to accost motorists whenever and wherever they choose.
From the dispatch.com
Every time my neighbors had a chance to accost him, they would.
From the washingtontimes.com
- Address: speak to someone
- Hook: approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings (as well as other members of the animal kingdom) intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact ...
- Address; greeting; To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request; To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of; To approach; to come up to; To speak to first; to address; to greet; To adjoin; to lie alongside
- (accosted) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
- (accosting) The act of physically confronting a person
- (accostment) an action of accosting
