accost

The mob was there to accost and hurl insults at 58-year-old Kiai Ashari, the caretaker of the Ndholo Kusumo Islamic boarding school, as he was escorted away by police.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

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

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

The bar opened into the lounge too, and that would or should have been the place to accost him and even inquire, except for the fact that he did not use the bar.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

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

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

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

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The trial heard how Botezatu was accosted after he left Latin American restaurant Amazonico.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

Among the federal authorities allegedly accosted have been Border Patrol agents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

“At the wedding? Or at Starbucks, when you randomly accosted me?”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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