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 tweeted.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2023

"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

A few furtive shapes darted into alleys at the sound of hoofbeats on the cobbles, but no one dared accost them.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

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

The McCanns, the court heard, then came across the defendants face-to-face when Ms Wandelt and Mrs Spragg turned up outside their home on 7 December 2024 and "accosted" them.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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 recognized Yossarian as the drunk who had accosted him roughly at the officers’ club one night before the first mission to Bologna, and he swung his displeasure prudently to Dunbar.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

His jokes were followed by a slide show of Philbin accosting famous artists like David Hockney and Ellsworth Kelly in the Hammer men’s room.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2024

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

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

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver